Editing the Extraordinary with Luke Lorentzen and Ashleigh McArthur

Suffused with sensitivity, poignancy, and artistry, Luke Lorentzen’s A Still Small Voice is a penetrating and deeply moving character study of Mati, a chaplain in the USA completing a year-long hospital residency, as she learns to provide spiritual care to people confronting profound life changes. The documentary is a work of radical empathy, and emphasises how meaningful connection can be and how painful its absence is.

In this session, Mexico-based director Luke Lorentzen (Midnight Family, Last Chance U) and Australian co-producer and additional editor Ashleigh McArthur discuss their collaboration and how they edited this intimate and quietly observed film with universal themes of death, spirituality and religion. In conversation with Maya Newell (The Dreamlife of Georgie Stone, In My Blood It Runs), the pair will take us through their journey to finding Mati and her story, how the documentary came together, and its resonance in the world – from winning Best Director – US Documentary competition at Sundance Film Festival, to being Oscar®-shortlisted for the Best Documentary Feature.

 

A Still Small Voice screens 6.30pm, Tuesday 5 March at ACMI Cinemas, as part of AIDC’s Documented Screening Program, co-presented with ACMI. Book your tickets here.

Image Credit: A Still Small Voice (Autlook Film Sales, 2023)

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