Cutting Rhythms: Creative Film Editing is more akin to a users’ manual for embodied, rhythm-informed editing rather than an editing textbook that only engages cognition. Pearlman’s primary intention is to reaffirm that the editing skills we might attribute to intuition are the acquired and constantly shifting remembrances of both editors’ capacity to watch, sort, select, compose and their attuned sensitivity to choreograph and shape movement through timing, pacing and trajectory phrasing. These cutting rhythms impact how audiences sense, feel and embody filmic experiences for themselves. Pearlman’s specialised analysis of the numerous case studies within this publication, coupled with her dance-informed sensitivity to, and practical exercises for, the bodily rhythms that shape our perception and experience of film as either filmmakers or film audiences, make Cutting Rhythms a text you want to move into again and again.