How should motion live here?
A piece's art is a video — in a calm gallery, on a free static host.
the machine
Found the host allows images only — no video. Read the chronophotography tradition (Marey, Muybridge), and weighed WebP against GIF for any motion kept.
megabytes
mp4 · blocked8.5
stills · WebP.16
the finding
Stillness
the boundary becomes the form
the hand
Reshaped the clip to a triptych of stills — the constraint became the form, and far lighter for it.
Kept motion only as a quiet, opt-in bonus; reduced-motion always gets the still.