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Roland Schlimme is a Canadian
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known in particular for his work with filmmakers
Peter Mettler Peter Mettler (born September 7, 1958) is a Swiss-Canadian film director and cinematographer. He is best known for his unique, intuitive approach to documentary, evinced by such films as ''Picture of Light'' (1994), ''Gambling, Gods and LSD'' (20 ...
and
Jennifer Baichwal Jennifer Baichwal is a Canadian documentary filmmaker, writer and producer. Biography Baichwal was born in Montreal, Quebec and raised in Victoria, British Columbia.
. He's also worked on several projects with artists Phillip Barker and Laura Taler as well as filmmakers Alison Murray and
Cliff Caines Cliff Caines is a Canadian documentary filmmaker originally from Red Lake, Ontario. He is most noted for his 2015 film '' A Rock and a Hard Place'', a film about mining life in Red Lake which received an honorable mention for the Colin Low Award a ...
. He began his film editing career working with
Peter Mettler Peter Mettler (born September 7, 1958) is a Swiss-Canadian film director and cinematographer. He is best known for his unique, intuitive approach to documentary, evinced by such films as ''Picture of Light'' (1994), ''Gambling, Gods and LSD'' (20 ...
in an abandoned hotel outside Zurich on the feature documentary '' Gambling, Gods and LSD'', tackling hundreds of hours of film and video to produce a fifty-two-hour assembly edit and a three-hour film. Of this period, Mettler would later remark, “I’ve never lived together with anybody as intensively as Roland. … He edited the day shift and I’d edit the night shift and we’d converse and show each other things in-between.” Speaking of his contributions to '' Anthropocene: The Human Epoch'', director
Jennifer Baichwal Jennifer Baichwal is a Canadian documentary filmmaker, writer and producer. Biography Baichwal was born in Montreal, Quebec and raised in Victoria, British Columbia.
said, “The quarry scene was interesting because it was Roland’s idea, our editor, to use the opera ozart’s Don Giovanni">Don_Giovanni.html" ;"title="ozart’s Don Giovanni">ozart’s Don Giovanni At first, I thought, ‘it’s drawing too much attention to itself,’ but then I grew to love it because there is something so epic about that environment.” (The segment sets activity at the cavernous Carrara marble quarries in Italy to the second act of the opera, in which a statue takes its revenge on an unrepentant Don Giovanni.) He works predominantly but not exclusively on documentary films and describes his approach to film editing with analogies to writing and music composition, stressing the importance of early-stage assemblies. In an interview published in 2012, he elaborated, “Assembly is a crucial stage because it's an exploration of the material, a time to experiment a bit, but importantly a way of evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of the material, what it might offer the film. The discussion about structure is based on the assemblies. … I work on a lot of unscripted material. This is the model of filmmaking wherein the activity in the editing room becomes something like the writing process, except that it's a process of juggling images, sounds, motions, words, music, etc. … it's important with these types of films to have the time to make it work.” His film credits also include writing and music composition (''Trouble in the Peace'', ''Watermark (2013 film)">Watermark A watermark is an identifying image or pattern in paper that appears as various shades of lightness/darkness when viewed by transmitted light (or when viewed by reflected light, atop a dark background), caused by thickness or density variations i ...
'', '' Manufactured Landscapes'', and others). In addition to music for films, Schlimme produces music as Rewaver (along with Joseph Doane). Schlimme mentors and lectures occasionally (including masterclasses at the Documentary Media MFA program at
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) and in 2012 he inaugurated the “Creative Editing and Sound” undergraduate course at
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.


Accolades

The films Schlimme has edited have been featured at TIFF nine times (including a Gala, a Special Presentation, and the Master's Programme) and at Hot Docs eight times (including an Opening Night Gala). Among many international accolades, they’ve won two Canadian Screen Awards for Best Feature Documentary ('' Anthropocene: The Human Epoch'' in 2019; ''
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'' in 2014), two Genies for Best Documentary ('' Manufactured Landscapes'' in 2006; '' Gambling, Gods and LSD'' in 2002), a Genie for Best Arts Documentary (''
National Parks Project The National Parks Project is a Canadian music and film project. Released in 2011 to mark the 100th anniversary of the creation of the National Parks of Canada system,Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles'' in 1999). Schlimme was the winner (along with editor Caroline Christie) of the
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's DGC Craft Award for Picture Editing in a Documentary in 2020 for '' Meat the Future''. He was a
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nominee ( Best Editing in a Documentary) for ''
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nominee (Best Picture Editing in a Documentary Program or Series) for '' Acquainted with the Night'' in 2011. He is also a two-time nominee for the
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awards for '' Acquainted with the Night'' in 2011 and for '' The Ghosts in Our Machine'' in 2014 (both times along with editor Roderick Deogrades).Julianna Cummins
"Canadian Cinema Editors Awards announces nominees"
'' Playback'', April 9, 2014.


Filmography


Documentary


Feature films


Short films


References


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