La Jetée Film Still

La Jetée

Chris Marker

 
La Jetée/Sans Soleil (Criterion Blu-Ray)

7 Feb 2012

Available in

La Jetée/Sans Soleil

See product info »
  • 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.

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

From the CurrentView the Current »

Film Essays

La Jetée: Unchained Melody

By Jonathan RomneyJune 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 »

Chris Marker: Memory’s Apostle

By Catherine LuptonJune 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 »


Photo Galleries


News

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 »