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Because the film’s editor sits on the side of the film to come and not that of the filmed reality, she represents the otherness and distanciation found in the process of creating a cinema direct film. Jean Ravel in France, Werner Nold in Quebec and Charlotte Zwerin in the United States have also innovated by contributing to forging the art of scripting the film in the editing.

These different examples of deferment express the tension which exists in direct cinema between the flow of what is filmed directly and the dramaturgical need for structure.