Still First
Key art
Still
The still comes first. The view from the top of The Stack is not a pose waiting for a camera to justify it. Rain, a city, a gap already possible in the middle of a complete skyline. If the picture only works once it moves, it was a trick. Image is that rule, kept for the whole archive. For this film it is the deck and the record below it.
Motion
Motion has one job: to prove the still was not arranged for the poster. Six seconds. The district is deleted. One bakery window remains, which the still could only imply, and then the window goes out, which the still refuses to do. The longer proof is the screening. Motion · Debt Floor.
Nothing in the move explains who signed the edit. Explanation would be a softer film.
Residual
Last is what the cut does not take with it. Room tone. The held note. The thinning after. They live on the sound page, thirty seconds each, because a residual that has been scored into a song has already been comforted. Sound in the Craft is the same door for every room. This one does not get an exception.
The method stays visible so the room does not pretend to be a feed. Still, then motion, then what remains. In that order, or it is not this house.