The "Boring" Editing Exercise That Teaches You to Cut for Emotion

Obsession has been the horror story of the year, and Curry Barker edited it himself. In the film , a lovesick music-store clerk named Bear (Michael Johnston) gets his hands on a magical novelty wish-maker and uses it on Nikki (Inde Navarrette), the friend he's pined after for years. The wish works, eh, a little too well. Barker made the film for less than a million dollars, and Focus Features paid roughly 20 times that after it screened at TIFF. It went on to be a sleeper hit that put its creative team and cast on the map. We can pull a lot of lessons from the film. I talked to Barker about th