FIRST MOTION

STILL follows a small household robot that can perceive only change. In an elderly clockmaker’s warm workshop, winding keys, kettle tremors, curtains, and turning hands flare into ember-and-ash constellations through its event-based eye. When the clockmaker collapses and becomes motionless, the person at the center of the robot’s world disappears while the clocks continue to spark around the room. The robot searches through movement: nudging a cup, rocking to reveal the floor through parallax, and waking a phone for help. Then it deliberately stops and chooses blindness. In the held darkness, one fingertip moves; a single ember grows into the hand, watch, and floor before warm reality returns. The film combines▎ fal-generated visual assets with deterministic local compositing, restrained kinetic-still cinematography, and a procedural event-vision aesthetic. Its soundtrack uses no music: clocks, mechanisms, servo motion, breath, room tone, tactile transients, and silence carry the emotional rhythm. The ending card names that return: FIRST MOTION.