Un pilar increíble de la ciencia ficción y la narración. El mejor visionado es cuando lo haces por primera vez sin saber casi nada.

Corto, directo y simple, pero innovador. De esas obras maestras irrepetibles.

#LaJetée #ChrisMarker #Cine #Películas #Movies #CienciaFicción #SciFi #ObrasMaestrasDelCine #Francia

#Bales2023FilmChallenge May 18: Appreciating #art on #InternationalMuseumDay

African art with such a deep significance were, w/i the bounds of Western civilisation, “things”. Through the editing, photography & dialogue they speak to the viewer, escaping the institute's walls. This voice was enough for the CNC to cut ⅔ of the film; the segment that's not blatantly #AntiColonial, was to be watched.

☞ https://write.underworld.fr/settima/when-men-die-they-enter-into-history

#ChrisMarker #Resnais #documentary #film #cinema #CineMastodon @film

A question for #FilmMastodon

Who here is a Chris Marker fan? And at what age did you first see La jetée?

#ChrisMarker #LaJetée.

Letter from Siberia (Chris Marker 1958) — "A witty examination of life and culture in Siberia."

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050633/ #movies #chrismarker

Watching Le mystère Koumiko (Chris Marker, 1965)

#film #documentary #ChrisMarker #France #Japan

If you have never seen the short #film LA JETÉE (1962, 28 mins) by the amazing and utterly unique filmmaker, Chris Marker, do yourself a favor and watch it. It is beautiful, strange, moving, and unforgettable.

Blurb: "Marker's La Jetée is one of the most influential, radical #sciencefiction films ever made, a tale of time travel told in still images."

Yes, still images. Except just one. Can you find it? It always grabs my heart.

#LaJetée #ChrisMarker #cinema #movies
https://youtu.be/amT023dAgec

61 years ago:
La Jetée (FR)
A man is sent back and forth and in and out of time in an experiment that attempts to unravel the fate and the solution to the problems of a post-apocalyptic world during the aftermath of WW3. The experiment results in him getting caught up in a perpetual reminiscence of past events that are recreat...
1962-02-16
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/662
#LaJetée #ChrisMarker #SciFi #ClassicFilm #ClassicMovies #Movies #Film

I will have spent my life trying to understand the function of remembering, which is not the opposite of forgetting, but rather its lining.

- Chris Marker "San Soleil"

#chrismarker #sanssoleil #quotes #cinema

The act of remembering has always been Marker's theme. Using the then relatively-new technology called internet, the famed visual essayist equates information/
misinformation w/ distorted history in the sci-fi mold. Yes, DOS era graphics are laughably outdated, but Marker's prediction is alarmingly accurate: avatars, OWL, short for optional world link (www?), skyping, internet anonymity, personal connection/disconnection. Level Five is a portent film with long lasting implications. #ChrisMarker

Beauty. Marker's outsider's point of view of China stresses similarities of human existence rather than contrasts while not losing the Western curiosity of the Far East. "The revolution was against capitalists, dusts and flies..." narrates the Marker surrogate wryly. In Peking that there are no more capitalists than there are flies. Sunday activities of regular people are captured in beautiful Kodachrome, restored in 2013 by The Eclair Group. #ChrisMarker #essayfilm #china #sundaysinpeking

Added a new hypertext collage this evening

https://www.shiftingedges.com/collage/concepts-of-time.html

#SmallWeb #ChrisMarker #ChristianMarklay #GeorgeBrecht

We also did a Terry Gilliam voyage, and saw Brazil (a couple weeks back), and then La Jetée, and then 12 Monkeys, followed by a palette cleanser of Monty Python (Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition episode).

La Jetée's premise inspired 12 Monkeys and is amazing if you haven’t seen it. Only half an hour. An experimental science fiction film by Chris Marker, composed of still images and a voice over narrative. Riveting stuff.

#film #movies #TerryGilliam #ChrisMarker #MontyPython

“He said you know this Chris Marker film “La Jetée”? Maybe we can do something like that”.

Apparently, Jean-Luc Godard had at least a couple film projects in the works when he died. I would love to see a Godard riff on a Marker film.
https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2023/1/vbb4ipo2mgtyvixutqeitpe1bp9irg
#JeanLucGodard #ChrisMarker #LaJetée #film #cinema #movies

Sublime. Marker's musings on impermanence of human existence & memories narrated by a female narrator are both poetic and thoughtful. 80's Japan takes the center stage as an alien world where a thousand years of time criss-crossing in every street corner, Kilgore Trout style. Beautiful and wise beyond anything I've seen or read. #sanssoleil #ChrisMarker #Japan #essayfilm

⚡️ Level Five (1997)
#CatherineBelkhodja as Laura
Directed by #ChrisMarker

"Such was William Gibson's vision when he wrote #Neuromancer and invented Cyberspace."
@GreatDismal

#fluxiumfilm #film #gif

⚡️ Level Five (1997)
#CatherineBelkhodja as Laura
Directed by #ChrisMarker

"Such was William Gibson's vision when he wrote #Neuromancer and invented Cyberspace."
@GreatDismal

#fluxiumfilm #film #gif

‘Obviously, this text is addressed to those who know Vertigo by heart. But do those who don’t deserve anything at all?’

Brilliant essay by #ChrisMarker on the many temporal vertigos of #Vertigo.

https://chrismarker.org/chris-marker/a-free-replay-notes-on-vertigo/

One of the most fascinating "film essays" & works of personal & collective #memory is #ChrisMarker's film, A GRIN WITHOUT A CAT (below is the 1993 re-edited version of the even longer 1977 film).

The #French, to this day, are both haunted by & inspired by the heady days of #May1968. What has become of the #Left? Where does #Socialism stand today? How are we to interpret the past? What hope for the future?

"A cat is never on the side of power." — Chris Marker

https://youtu.be/QIFbwVOuZRk

French filmmaker Chris Marker sure loved his cat.

https://vimeo.com/68310457
Cat listening to music, 1994

#ChrisMarker #cat #catsofmastodon

https://vimeo.com/272742439

An interesting short film comparing #AlfredHitchcock's #Vertigo (1958) and #ChrisMarker's #LaJetée (1962).

Two of my favorite films ever.

«[L]e vertige dont il est question ici ne concerne pas la chute dans l’espace. Il est la métaphore, évidente, saisissable et spectaculaire, d’un autre vertige, plus difficile à représenter, le vertige du Temps.» —Chris Marker (source: https://chrismarker.org/chris-marker/free-replay-notes-sur-vertigo-french-version/)

#cinema #filmhistory #film #aesthetics