As my mother says, 'Let's not destroy a good story with the truth.' " In 2000, when Kjartansson was in his last year at the Iceland Academy of the Arts, he made a ten-minute video, called "Me and My Mother," in which he and Guðrún Ásmundsdóttir, his mother, stand side by side, immobile, facing the camera.
Even when nothing appears to be happening, at least in conventional dramatic terms, and the camera is immobile, the film doesn't feel static: it retains a sense of movement toward an end -- in other words, it conveys a sort of faith.
The stimulus was a video sequence comprising both normal and slowed-down blinks of a female staying immobile and looking at the camera.
Her actors often conduct themselves with an animalistic force; the camera is either unflinchingly immobile or relentlessly on the move.
We get distinctively weird and halting dialogue, doomy-eerie organ chords on the soundtrack, monochrome cinematography in which daylight is only slightly brighter than the night, extreme closeups of stricken, immobile faces and glacially slow, hypnotic camera movements.
Behavior was recorded with a video camera and the time spent immobile (making only those movements necessary to keep the snout above the water), swimming, climbing or diving was quantified manually using a computer program (The Observer 5.0.25, Noldus IT, 2003).
Quantitative information by means of two cameras reveals that at an immobile nucleation site the bubble grows rapidly followed by a linear increase in bubble diameter with time.
The current roster favors a stationary camera pointed at themselves seated and immobile, participating in a text chat session that unfolds on half of the screen.
In the end, the Romanians received their gold medals, and the United States women stood immobile on the podium, straining smiles for the cameras when they were announced to the crowd.
