Idris Fenn
A tutor and working film editor who runs the seminar's practice weeks and marks the two studio-based assessments.
- Role
- Tutor
- Affiliation
- Slop University School of Invented Disciplines
- idris.fenn@slop.university
- Contact
- Ask during the seminar, or email when a question can't wait until the next one.
Idris cuts documentaries for a living, which means spending most of a working week deciding what a film doesn’t need. He joined Via Negativa to argue the case that editing is the discipline’s most literal example — a cut is a material fact, timestamped, and you can always point to the frame where it happened, which most of the course’s other examples can’t quite offer.
He marks the studio-based assessments and holds the view, stated early and often, that a good cut should be uncomfortable to make and only slightly less uncomfortable to defend.