Passing time -- Uncertainty : natural magic and the art of deception -- The index and the uncanny : life and death in the photograph -- The death drive : narrative movement stilled -- Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960) -- Roberto Rossellini's Journey to Italy / Viaggio in Italia (1953) -- Abbas Kiarostami : cinema of uncertainty, cinema of delay -- Delaying cinema -- The possessive spectator -- The pensive spectator