La Jetée : ciné-
La Jetée, the legendary science-fiction film about time and memory after a nuclear apocalypse, was released in 1964 and is considered by many critics to be among the greatest experimental films ever made. (It provided the basis for the recent Terry Gilliam film 12 Monkeys.) Chris Marker, who is the undisputed master of the film essay, composed this post-apocalyptic story almost...
La Jetée, the legendary science-fiction film about time and memory after a nuclear apocalypse, was released in 1964 and is considered by many critics to be among the greatest experimental films ever made. (It provided the basis for the recent Terry Gilliam film 12 Monkeys.) Chris Marker, who is the undisputed master of the film essay, composed this post-apocalyptic story almost entirely of black-and-white still photographs. The story concerns an experiment in recovering and changing the past through the action of memory, yet the film can be read as a poem dominated by a single moving image, which in its context becomes one of the supreme moments in the history of film.<br /> <br /> This Zone edition reproduces the film's original images along with the script in both English and French.
Review
[La Jetée] evokes much of the film's impact, successfully conveying its lyrical, dreamlike quality and its message of hope and love.
―Booklist
[La Jetée is] a remarkable short film about romance and postapocalyptic time travel...you can get a further sense of La Jetée's power in the photobook version...a superb job of preserving the sense of fragmentation, fragility, and...
Review
[La Jetée] evokes much of the film's impact, successfully conveying its lyrical, dreamlike quality and its message of hope and love.
―Booklist
[La Jetée is] a remarkable short film about romance and postapocalyptic time travel...you can get a further sense of La Jetée's power in the photobook version...a superb job of preserving the sense of fragmentation, fragility, and stark visual beauty that has made La Jetée a classic.
―Wired
Review
“This book version of La Jetée is, to my mind, astonishingly beautiful. It brings a total freshness to the work and a new way to use photos to deal with dramatic events. Not a film’s book, but a book in its own right ― the real ciné-roman announced in the film’s credits.”―Chris Marker
“This strange and poetic film, a fusion of science fiction, psychological fable, and photomontage … creates its own conventions from scratch. It triumphantly succeeds where science fiction invariably fails.”― J.G. Ballard
About the Author
Chris Marker (born in 1921) is one of French cinema's most influential artists.