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To make a movie in 1962 about World War III, time traveling and a distant future that is still genuinely disturbing and not in the least outdated comes close to a miracle.
With Étienne Becker, Jean Négroni, Hélène Chatelain, Davos Hanich. V iewers emerge from Chris Marker's La Jetée (1962), a film made almost entirely of still photographs, marked for ever by its imagery yet somehow unsure exactly what they have seen. Occasionally too slow and a couple of time repetitious in a bad way - probably the result of this being the always-longer, let's-put-back-in-what-we-correctly-left-out-before director's cut - La Jetee is otherwise a tour de force of shot juxtaposition and cumulative frame-by-frame impact. The main character’s run is paralyzed and trapped in time. Paul Smith, Cambridge Univ. However, as each one of La Jetée’s static images lasts considerably longer than 1/24 of a second, on celluloid each still in La Jetée actually comprises dozens of replicas of itself. It is the often infinitesimal differences between these still images that make the picture appear to move. However you define Chris Marker's 1963 short La Jetée—philosophical fiction, genre exercise, treatise on cinematic time—one fact is unavoidable: it resembles few other films.
The opening shot of La Jetee creates the illusion of time through zoom out. Marker envisions a world controlled by science and fascism. La Jetee is what Rosenstone would refer to as an innovative drama. Nine years before Hollis Frampton’s Nostalgia and Poetic Justice used still images to examine the question of cinema temporality, Chris Marker composed La Jetee (1962) almost entirely of still shots. Stay safe and healthy. La Jetée is a beautiful and mysterious post-apocalyptic science fiction film made almost entirely from still images. La Jetée is a short film, written and directed by Chris Marker in 1962, that is best known for inspiring Terry Gilliam’s 12 Monkeys and subsequently the SyFy television series.
The story of a man forced to explore his memories in the wake of World War III's devastation, told through still images. By almost entirely removing motion from his film, Marker challenges the idea that cinema is solely the domain of the moving image as he weaves together an intricate portrait of memory, time and space. Orley Jetée… “This is the story of a […] It … No nos salen canciones alegres. Please practice hand-washing and social distancing, and check out our resources for adapting to these times. It is one still after another.
Press, 1995. 9 in Schefer, Jean-Louis, The Enigmatic Body, ed. Still, it’s easy to feel the political conscious at work in La Jetée. Here's a short synopsis of the story: After World War III Paris is lying in tatters. La Jetée is a 1962 French science fiction featurette directed by Chris Marker and associated with the Left Bank artistic movement. It has influenced the music of David Bowie, Isis, and Panda Bear, as well novels like the Time Traveler’s Wife.
The movie that inspired Terry Gilliam's 12 Monkeys, Chris Marker's La jetée is a landmark of science-fiction filmmaking, a 28-minute masterpiece told almost entirely in still frames.
It has influenced the music of David Bowie, Isis, and Panda Bear, as well novels like the Time Traveler’s Wife. Marker's La Jetée is one of the most influential, radical science-fiction films ever made, a tale of time travel told in still images.
Nov 21, 2019 - The quest for offbeat pieces of cinematic art should definitely include a screening of La Jetée, a highly innovative and experimental French film. La Jetée somos de Alicante, hacemos música. Chris Marker evokes this idea as he tells the story of La Jetée (1962) through a series of still frames. Filmmaker Chris Marker uses still images almost exclusively in the film, and is truly an excellent case study on the power of an … Chris Marker has been challenging moviegoers, philosophers, and himself for years with his complex queries about time, memory, and the rapid advancement of life on this planet. These images are accompanied by transitions as well as soundtrack, and a narrator tells the story of what the images mean. La Jetée is a short film, written and directed by Chris Marker in 1962, that is best known for inspiring Terry Gilliam’s 12 Monkeys and subsequently the SyFy television series. Palmer suggests (I'm simplifying his argument greatly, I'm afraid) that La Jetée is a film about our double-edged relationship with memory: it's the means by which we visit the past, by which we try to glean the meanings we need from that past. Probably the most recognizable narrative film that uses stills is the short film that inspired 12 Monkeys, 1962 French science fiction film La Jetée. It is filmed entirely in black and white and is a “photo roman,” a photographic novel consisting of only a series of still images.
La Jetée has had significantly more influence on the realm of science fiction than that.
Translated by Paul Smith Originally published for the catalogue of a video exhibition “Passages de l’image” that toured Europe and the United States in 1991 and 1992. "La jetée" is a million years ahead of its time.