In the organizer's words:

"JURASSIC PARK"

USA 1993, Director: Steven Spielberg, Editing: Michael Kahn, 123 min., OmU; Feature film with Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum and others.

Followed by a film talk with editor Gesa Jäger, moderated by Dietmar Kraus, curator Edimotion

On the fictional island of Nublar, near Costa Rica, billionaire John Hammond has created an adventure park. The special attraction is living dinosaurs, cloned from DNA finds. After a fatal accident, a group of scientists is tasked with checking and certifying the safety of the park. But they soon find themselves in life-threatening danger. "Jurassic Park" is one of the most commercially successful films of all time and still impresses today with its suspenseful dramaturgy. It also set new standards in the field of special effects at the time.

Our guest, editor Gesa Jäger, remembers that she was riveted to the movie theater as an eleven-year-old - and this experience is one of the reasons why she makes films today: "On the one hand, this is due to the female characters, which were unusual for the time, but also to the unconditional tension created by the editing - you can see the expectation, the tension, the horror in the faces before you get to see it yourself."

Gesa Jäger was born in Hamburg in 1981. During her history studies, she discovered her passion for editing through internships in television and then trained as a "specialist for film and EB editing" at NDR in Hamburg. From 2008 to 2013, she studied editing at the Film University Babelsberg. She received an Edimotion award for her graduation film "Love Steaks" in 2014. This was followed in 2019 by another Edimotion award for the documentary "Dreamaway". Also in 2019, she received an award from the Filmkunsttage Sachsen-Anhalt for her life's work as an editor. In 2023, she won the German Film Award in the Best Editing category for the feature film "Das Lehrerzimmer". Gesa Jäger is a member of the German Federal Association of Film Editors (BFS), the German and European Film Academy and the Oscar Academy AMPAS. She lives in Berlin.

In the ifs Encounter: Edimotion series, we ask editors about their personal favorite films whose outstanding editing they would like to present.

An event by Edimotion - Festival for Film Editing and Montage Art in cooperation with the ifs International Film School Cologne, as part of the Filmforum NRW e.V., supported by the Cultural Office of the City of Cologne.