Motion(less) Pictures: The Cinema of Stasis

Abstract

While some film theorists and philosophers have seen motion as a necessary element of cinema, this view is challenged by a body of avant-garde films which offer little or no movement. These experiments—by film-makers such as Andy Warhol, Larry Gottheim, and Michael Snow— challenge essentialist definitions of film, while simultaneously foregrounding the crucial role played by duration in cinema’s ontology.

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