What does a music editor actually do? And what gets lost when no one explains it?
What does a music editor actually do — and what gets lost when no one explains it?
Filmed on the island of Lopud during the 2025 Ponta Lopud Film Festival, this is a conversation between music editor and NYU professor Suzana Perić and film critic and broadcaster Mark Kermode — two people who have spent their careers listening closely to film music, from opposite sides of the room.
They talk about the music editor as translator between film language and musical language, how Suzana uses temp tracks as an educational tool while protecting composers from ever hearing them, the single sentence Jonathan Demme gave Howard Shore for The Silence of the Lambs, and what composers like Anna Meredith and Eiko Ishibashi reveal about where film music is going.
No moderator. No script. Just two artists, on an island, in conversation.
