Residency artists and researchers Cinema Tuula Mehtonen Movie editor I am Tuula Mehtonen (born 1953), a movie editor. I live in Karkkila but work mostly in Helsinki and Espoo. I currently mostly edit documentaries but am very interested in all film expression. In 1996–2007, I was in charge of the specialization area of film editing at the Department of Motion Picture, Television and Production Design at Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture. I have also taught editing and film narration at film schools in Norway and the Baltic region as well as at a yearly international workshop in Burma. At the Saari Residence, I will be studying, and writing a book about, the structure and expression of modern film. As an editor, I consider important not only the emotional effects that occur within the audience when viewing a film but also the methods through which the film’s creators construct these effects. I am particularly interested in films that are not classically structured and in which a weak plot is displaced by a strong emotional charge. I want to base my writing on my professional experience and to do so without academic burdens. In this way, I hope to introduce a film maker’s perspective to film writing.