BIOGRAPHIE

Karen Pearlman’s 'An Editor’s Anthology', a trilogy of short films about historical women editors (2016, 2018 & 2020), won 34 highly competitive national and international awards from peak industry bodies and film festivals, including 3 for best editing, 3 for best directing and 6 for best documentary. Her 2020 film, 'I want to make a film about women', was longlisted for an Oscar and nominated for an Australian Academy Award. The special jury prize citation from the Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival reads: "a film of innovative brilliance, celebrating the inexhaustible, essential tenacity of suppressed artists everywhere”. Karen is the author of the widely used textbook on editing, 'Cutting Rhythms' (Focal Press), now in its 2nd edition and with translations into Chinese, Korean, Arabic and Turkish. Her work has reached audiences of over one million people through collaboratively made research YouTube videos called 'The Science of Editing'. Karen is a director, with Richard James Allen, of The Physical TV Company, whose documentary, drama, and dance films have been broadcast on ABC and SBS-TV, screened at between 300 and 400 film festivals on six continents, garnering well over 100 awards or nominations, and added to the collections of 10 major film archives around the world.

FILMOGRAPHIE

• 2024 Breaking Plates Réalisation, Scénario, Interprétation / Avec, Montage, Voix, Scénario, Interprétation / Avec, Montage, Voix
• 2023 Cut Montage, Montage
• 2021 After Saturn Montage, Montage
• 2019 I Want to make a film about women Réalisation, Production, Scénario, Montage, Voix, Scénario, Montage, Voix
• 2018 After the Facts Réalisation, Production, Scénario, Montage, Voix, Texte, Scénario, Montage, Voix, Texte
• 2017 Digital Afterlives Réalisation, Production, Montage, Effets spéciaux, Montage, Effets spéciaux
• 2016 Woman with an Editing Bench Réalisation, Production, Scénario, Montage, Texte, Scénario, Montage, Texte
• 2001 Rubberman accepts the Nobel prize Réalisation