stilling

noun — 2 senses

stilling

noun

1

The act by which something is made still.

Rivette's interdiction on the tracking shot in Kapò contrasted with the double structure of arrests/stillings of image and spectator in Night and Fog served as an ethico-political talisman for all Daney's mature film criticism.2011, Griselda Pollock, Maxim Silverman, Concentrationary Cinema:

stilling

noun

Etymology Compare Low German Stelling, German stellen (“to set, to place”).

1

UK, Dialectal, Obsolete A stillion.

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