FINAL CUT HC UK EDITION

It’s safe to say I found Final Cut tremendous. Collecting into English the three volumes of the previously published French language Dedales, Burns’ story of two cult horror enthusiast friends working on their latest low budget project hits a lot of the artists standard fixations. One of those friends is emotional mixed-bag Brian, lacking in social skills but abundantly supplied with creative impulses, a character whose unpleasant fuddling of his romantic wants with his lead star test the empathy that you so sorely want to have for him. In Burns’ work we can vividly see reflections of our

friends and ourselves from when we emerged from the key stage of adolescence that the characters within Final Cut are struggling to navigate. Burns often returns to themes of youth in his work, but it never feels like he’s going over old ground, instead treading new pathways into memories we didn’t know we had. With its incredibly strange mille-feuille layering of cult-film nods, broken romance and the fundamental human need to try and express, I’d put Final Cut up against just about anything.