Abstract
The central thesis of this article is that film is directing and directed kinaesthesis understood as an opening of world beyond the relation of "subjective" and "objective". Moved by its filmmakers, the body of the camera is directed as the product of its authors, and is directing insofar as it establishes a world by its own means.
The article explains basic forms of opening world by kinaesthetic processes in general (1), and applies this investigation to the corpus of fi lm (2). Finally, the results of these analyses will be put in concrete terms by relating them to basic fi lm features and a few samples of movies (3).