Bibliograph

La jetée, Sans soleil, two films by Chris Marker

Type

Label

La jetée, Sans soleil, two films by Chris Marker

Language

fre

Characteristic

videorecording

Main title

La jetée

Medium

videorecording ;

Oclc number

776712593

Responsibility statement

two films by Chris Marker

Runtime

130

Series statement

The Criterion collection, 387

Sub title

Sans soleil

Summary

La jetée: While at the Orly Airport observation deck, a boy sees a man shot. Shortly afterwards World War III breaks out and Paris is destroyed by nuclear weapons. As one of the survivors, the now grown man is chosen as part of an experiment in time travel because he has a strong grasp on a moment in the past-- the image of the man being shot at the airport. He is successfully sent back in time. But once in the past, he falls in love with a girl, and defies orders to return and be with herSans soleil: This film addresses the themes of time, space, and geography. It is "a collage of images gathered from Japan, Africa, Iceland, San Francisco, and France -- all presented without direct sound. The soundtrack consists of occasional spells of electronic music while an unseen woman's voice ... narrates letters written by a possibly fictional traveler in poetic verse. Beginning with the phrase "He wrote me," each segment explores some philosophical inquiry of matters as broad as modern culture, technology, consciousness, Japanese television, and even the act of filming itself"--Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi

Table Of Contents

880-01, La jetée (1963, 27 min., b & w) / Argos-Films présente avec la participation du Service de la recherche de la R.T.F. ; un photo-roman de Chris Marker -- Bez solnt︠s︡a = Sunless = Sans Soleil (1983, 103 min., b & w and col.) / Anatole Dauman proposes ; conception and editing, Chris Marker

Technique

live action

resource.variantTitle

Sans soleil

Classification