The editorial article to the themed issue Mise en geste. Studies of Gesture in Cinema and Art. Cover image: Still from Russkii kovcheg / Russian Ark (Aleksandr Sokurov, 2002, Russia, Germany, Japan, Canada, Finland, Denmark). Time code: 00:41:45.

film theory; media; gesture; mise en geste; mediation; movement; body; language montage; dialectics; ethics; pure gesture; apparatus; technology; deformation; physiognomy; anaphora; carpalistics; revolution; spectacle; power; image; political art; stasis