James Culbertson is an editor with additional supporting skills in still and motion photography, visual effects, motion graphics, color correction, compression (for web, optical disk, and device delivery), and post-production consulting, all integrated in creative service to story and message. He is comfortable working in teams or on his own.
Recent editing projects include: "The Boy Who Sang to the World," a documentary-preview (for Woody Creek Pictures); "Mississippi Remixed," a documentary about the state of race relations in Mississippi, aired on Mississippi Public Broadcasting (for Ottewell Productions); and a series of Savers / Value Village Halloween commercial spots for Theatrical & Broadcast release in America and Canada (for Channelready, Inc.).
Of late, James has begun to bring together his skills as an editor, with his love of image and light as a photographer, to sculpt his own stories.
First music video edit (1994), one 3 minute reel of Super 8 and Premiere 3:
"Don't run after poetry. It penetrates unaided through the cracks."
- Robert Bresson
Favorite Directors - Andrey Tarkovsky, Federico Fellini,
Terrence Malick, Darren Aronofsky, and Peter Greenaway.
Favorite Documentary - Iraq in Fragments