Media such as film emerged from the desire to hold unique events. Basically, this idea may be right, but experience shows that media are limited in their suitability for capturing the moment of the infinitely small point of the present. Rather media make clear that there is a past. Film shows this transience. In the digital era the problem of the preservation of our audio-visual heritage suggests these considerations. “Still Dissolution” originates from thoughts of transience and took over ten years to find its form for the screen as a cinematographic miniature.