Stillmoving I

Stillmoving I is a film theoretical exploration of this concept. It is a theoretical and conceptual contribution to cinema and media studies in general and slow cinema and still moving scholarship in particular, asking what kind of image a still Einstellung generates.

The book retains the German term, Einstellung, using the ambiguity inherent in this particular kind of image phenomenon as its point of departure: the long take, or at least a continuous unbroken take, effected by an immobile camera whose captured content could potentially contain perceptible movements produced by entities within the composition framed. The author asks whether this image is a still image, or a moving image, or both, or neither, or, finally, what Faldalen terms stillmoving. Underlying these deliberations is the question of how cinema represents or mediates stillness.

Stillmoving I unfolds over three chapters that examine the concept of still Einstellung in relation to slow cinema scholarship throughout the last two decades, in relation to approaches referred to as stillmoving scholarship, and in relation to reflections and shadows.