Film and the Moving Mountain
How camera movement changes mountain perception Overview Every tradition surveyed so far in this series — thangka, mural, miniature painting, rock art, textile, sculpture — renders the mountain still. The mountain is fixed in pigment, carved in stone, woven in thread. Even the Chinese handscroll, which unfolds the landscape in time as the viewer’s hands unroll silk from right to left, presents a series of still moments. The photograph, too, freezes the mountain into a single instant of light. Film does something none of these can do. It moves. ...