La jetée

    • Chris Marker
    • France
    • 1962
    • 28 min
    • Top 10

    Paris, sometime after a Third World War. Nuclear devastation has left people living underground, sheltering from the deadly radiation at the surface. Scientists are experimenting with time travel, in the hope that salvation for the desperate present can be found in the future or past. Prisoners are their guinea pigs.

    Most don’t survive the shock of a leap through time, but one of them proves to be highly successful. This is because of his fixation with a powerful childhood memory: at an airport he noticed a beautiful girl, and then saw a man die.

    Chris Marker’s masterful contemplation of the power of memory and the ineluctable passage of time is seen by many as one of the best films ever made. The famous experimental short film tells the story entirely in still, black-and-white images. The dry voice-over, narrating the story as if it were a scientific report, creates an atmosphere that is at the same time both clinical and poetic.

    Credits

    • 28 min
    • black and white
    • DCP
    • Spoken languages: English
    • Subtitles in: Not applicable
    Director
    Chris Marker
    Production
    Anatole Dauman
    Co-production
    Argos Films
    Cinematography
    Jean Chiabaut, Chris Marker
    Editing
    Jean Ravel

    IDFA history

    2022
    Screened
    Top 10
    2019
    Screened
    Top 10

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