La Jetée: Unchained Melody
By June 25, 2007
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. In fact, La Jetée Read more »
- France
- 1963
- 27 minutes
- Black and White
- 1.66:1
- French
SYNOPSIS: Chris Marker, filmmaker, poet, novelist, photographer, editor, and now videographer and digital multimedia artist, 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. 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.
Cast & CreditsOpen
Cast
Credits
| Director | Chris Marker |
| Editing | Jean Ravel |
| Voice | James Kirk |
| Music | Trevor Duncan (Editions Boosey and Hawkes) |
| choirs from | The Russian Cathedral of Paris |
| direction by | Piotr V. Spassky |
Disc Features
GUILLAUME-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION:
- Restored high-definition digital transfers, approved by director Chris Marker, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks
- Two interviews with filmmaker Jean-Pierre Gorin
- Chris on Chris, a video piece on Marker by filmmaker and critic Chris Darke
- Two excerpts from the French television series Court-circuit (le magazine): a look at David Bowie’s music video for the song “Jump They Say,” inspired by La Jetée, and an analysis of Hitchcock’s Vertigo and its influence on Marker
- Junkopia, a six-minute film by Marker, Frank Simone, and John Chapman about the Emeryville Mudflats
- PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by Marker scholar Catherine Lupton, an interview with Marker, notes on the films and filmmaking by Marker, and more
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Film Essays
Chris Marker: Memory’s Apostle
By June 25, 2007
La Jetée (1963) and Sans Soleil (1983) made a tidy twenty years apart, are the twin peaks of Chris Marker’s creative achievements and his best-loved and most widely seen films. But who is Chris Read more »
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Marker in Transit
April 06, 2011
New Yorkers have a special opportunity to see new work from the great French filmmaker and pioneering multimedia artist Chris Marker (La Jetée, Sans Soleil). Passengers, an exhibition composed of more Read more »
Still Life on Film
March 05, 2010
Starting today and running through Sunday, March 14, London’s Tate Modern investigates the relationship between photography and the moving image in a fascinating series entitled PhotoFilm, showcasing Read more »
