Reading Time: 6 minutesA bone flies into the air. Cut. A spacecraft drifts silently through orbit. In one edit, Stanley Kubrick skipped four million years of human history, and it remains the most audacious time jump in cinema. That’s elliptical editing at its most extreme, but the technique works just as well across a single afternoon. What Is… Continue reading Elliptical Editing: How Films Compress Time Into Seconds