Metamorphosis from silent dynamic rhythm to the passivity of the body in fiction

In its beginnings, silent cinema emphasised the expressive and communicative potential of the body by exacerbating gestures and actions. However, today’s fictional cinema is confronted with an opposite tendency: the passivity of body movement. This study analyses the representation of the body in three films of today’s silent cinema from a threefold approach: movement, immersion and technology. The results confirm the predominance of the mind over the body.