La Jetée (1962)
- Directed by
- Chris Marker
- Genre
- science fiction film, series of images, post-apocalyptic film, dystopian film, arthouse science fiction film
- Country
- France
- Runtime
- 28 min
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 7.9 of 10 from 1,008 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A man is sent back in time after a nuclear war. The story is told entirely through still black and white photographs.
contemplativehauntingmelancholicunsettlingdreamlikebleakcerebral
What happens
La Jetée (French pronunciation: [la ʒəte]) is a 1962 French science fiction featurette written and directed by Chris Marker and associated with the Left Bank artistic movement. Constructed almost entirely from still photos, it tells the stable time loop story of a post-nuclear war experiment in time travel. It is 28 minutes long and shot in black and white. It won the Prix Jean Vigo for short film. The 1995 science fiction film 12 Monkeys was inspired by and borrows several concepts directly from La Jetée, as does the 2015 TV series of the same name. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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