After the Cut
Key art
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Permanent screening
The frame is held. After the Cut returns here when the film is filed.
Synopsis
An editing booth at night. The splice lies on the table. The timeline shows a gap where one frame was taken, and the two edges will not admit they touched. The editor does not search the reel. She puts the splice back in the can and does not seal it.
Extended sequence
She stays with the gap. The studio is not in the room. In the morning other people will call the cut final.
Figures in the frame
The editor, a name the studio has stopped using. The splice. No actor in the missing frame, because the frame is not here.
Codex fragment
The street under the booth is not in this picture. The chair, the glass, and the three letters of the sign are the minute it will not walk down to. The night beside it is the story. The shot is the scenario.
Sound of Imagination
The booth's fan, the small click of a can, no score under the gap.
Showcase
The object is the unsealed can, not a portrait of the person who was in the missing second.
The Craft
The lens stays on the timeline and the table. It does not go outside.
Filed in The Houses
Filed as the booth. The street belongs to the story beside it.
After the frame
Mark · keep · letter
Released rooms keep a mark from one to five, a keep on this device, and letters that stay with the page after the feed has moved on. After the Cut is ready.
Letters under the frame
The Archivist · held
Filed in the archive. The page does not expire.