Kenneth George Godwin is a film and video editor based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, with 20 years experience cutting documentaries and dramas, shorts and features, for television  and theatrical distribution.  He has worked with both established filmmakers and directors just beginning their careers, with the National Film Board of Canada and weekly television. He has also been involved with the famed Winnipeg Film Group, cutting projects for Guy Maddin, Jeff Erbach and others, and attended the Canadian Film Centre as a resident editor. In addition, he has written, produced, directed and edited four short films which were programmed by a number of festivals and sold to television in Canada, Australia and Europe. Most recently, he completed a feature length documentary on HD called Going: Remembering Winnipeg Movie Theatres.

SITE CONTENTS

My film work can be surveyed on the CV, FILMS and DEMO REEL pages, which list my credits as filmmaker and editor, with sample clips and some photo galleries.

PUBLICATIONS is a bibliography of my published criticism, with PDFs of selected articles and reviews.

LYNCHIANA is a collection of materials on David Lynch and his work, including extensive interview transcripts with Lynch and his collaborators about the making of Eraserhead, and the journal I kept during six months working on Lynch’s production of Dune in Mexico in 1983. In addition there are several photo galleries containing pictures I took behind the scenes on Dune.

ROUGH CUT is a blog on which I regularly offer reviews of films, and ideas and opinions about film history.