Stillmoving II

Stillmoving II studies a foundational figure of style: a static long take, discussed here as a still Einstellung. An analytical, theoretical and conceptual contribution to cinema and media studies in general and slow cinema and still moving scholarship in particular, the book asks what kind of image a still Einstellung generates.

Through figure of style analysis of the still Einstellung of Louis Lumière and Quai de l'Archevêché (Lumière operator, 1896), André Bazin's conceptualization of “the immobility of the sequence shot” in the kitchen scene in The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles, 1942), and the MPEG compression codec, Stillmoving II suggests that a still Einstellung causes stillmoving imagenesis, a both/neither first kind of image generation in a thirding or firsting of stillmoving/still/ moving imagenesis. As truly something else, while – like moving imagenesis – moving the moving as moving, a still Einstellung calms the unmoving as continuing, or: it stills the still as still. This is part of a disarming of the eye and camera.