3D<i>Ziyarat</i>: Lenticularity and technologies of the moving image in material and visual piety

Images in movement and images of take a central place iterations Islamic material visual piety. Yet the still image remains default object inquiry most studies devotional visuality. Taking rather than stasis as prerequisite for engagement, many popular decorative items technologies that share status “moving images” evoke affective experience pilgrimage. In what follows, close analysis repertoire one such technology, lenticular print, formed through its circulation Pakistan, provides insights into kind engagement expected from whose efficacy is governed by their mobility. By testing application some significant theories on phenomenology film experience, combined with ways understanding forms presence elicited virtual pilgrimage, this essay attempts to better grasp kinds invited objects characterized evocation movement.