ORGANIC MOTION,

for a Politics of Perception 

In English and French Versions

« There will be as many differences between today’s cinema and what cinema will be in a thousand or ten thousand years, as there are between the bulls of Lascaux and Andy Warhol’s portrait of Marilyn Monroe. »

Yannik Ruault, filmmaker.

Abstract

Organic Motion, for a Politics of Perception advances a theoretical and practice-based framework for conceiving cinema as an embodied organization of perception. Rather than privileging narrative structures or representational content, the book argues that films operate primarily through the shaping of perceptual experience - by structuring time, movement, rhythm, attention, and memory - and that this perceptual organization constitutes a political dimension inherent to cinematic form.

Organic Motion is articulated as a descriptive model of filmic writing, grounded in an explicit alphabet composed of symbols, inflections, and postproduction signs. This formal system enables the analysis of a film’s dynamic structures independently of thematic interpretation, rendering perceptual configurations legible as constitutive elements of cinematic language.

In response to contemporary tendencies toward the standardization and automation of formal practices, Organic Motion is proposed as a critical instrument fostering perceptual awareness and artistic responsibility within cinematic creation, scholarly research, and pedagogical contexts.

Description
Topic: Storytelling Cinema
Keywords: New Tool, Creative Storytelling, Analytic Approach

Available in English & French
Format: A5, 96 pages
Original Edition: 2026
Price: 35 USD | 25 GBP | 30 EUR

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