Country: France
Year: 1962
Duration: 28'
In a near future devastated by WWIII and contaminated by radiation, a man is subjected to experiments by scientists in search of a way out of the disaster through time travel. A theoretical and painful “photo story,” in which the still photos are accompanied by a narrator’s voice, chinks appear between different temporal strata, and memory becomes life. A masterpiece which inspired Gilliam’s Twelve Monkeys.
Biography
film director
Chris Marker
Chris Marker (born Christian François Bouche-Villeneuve; Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, 1921 - Paris, France, 2012) made Les statues meurent aussi with Alain Resnais in 1953. He then turned to documentary filmmaking with works as Lettre de Sibéria (1957) and Le joli mai (1963), and directing in an almost fifty-years-long career many other films, including the well-known La jetée (1962), Sans soleil (1983) and Le tombeau d’Alexandre (1993), which made him one of the most important militant experimental filmmakers of French cinema.
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia essenziale/essential filmography
Olympia 52 (1952), Les statues meurent aussi (coregia/codirector Alain Resnais, cm, doc., 1953), Lettre de Sibérie (doc., 1957), ¡Cuba Si! (mm, doc., 1961), La jetée (cm, 1962), Le joli mai (doc., 1963), Loin du Vietnam (collettivo/collective, doc., 1967), La sixième face du pentagone (cm, doc., 1968), La bataille des dix millions (mm, doc., 1971), Vive la baleine (cm, doc., 1972, co-regia Mario Ruspoli), L’ambassade (cm, 1973), Le fond de l’air est rouge (doc., 1977), Junkopia (cm, doc., 1981), Sans soleil (doc., 1983), A.K. (doc., 1985), Mémoires pour Simone (doc., 1986), Le tombeau d’Alexandre (doc., tv, 1993), Level Five (1997), Chats perchés (mm, tv, 2004).
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura/director, screenplay
Chris Marker
fotografia/cinematography
Jean Chiabaut, Chris Marker
montaggio/film editing
Jean Ravel
suono/sound
Antoine Bonfanti
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Jean Négroni (voce/voice), Hélène Chatelain (la donna/woman), Davos Hanich (l’uomo/man), Jacques Ledoux (l’uomo dell’esperimento/experimenter), André Heinrich, Jacques Branchu, Pierre Joffroy, William Klein
produttore/producer
Anatole Dauman
produzione/production
Argos Films
Chris Marker
fotografia/cinematography
Jean Chiabaut, Chris Marker
montaggio/film editing
Jean Ravel
suono/sound
Antoine Bonfanti
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Jean Négroni (voce/voice), Hélène Chatelain (la donna/woman), Davos Hanich (l’uomo/man), Jacques Ledoux (l’uomo dell’esperimento/experimenter), André Heinrich, Jacques Branchu, Pierre Joffroy, William Klein
produttore/producer
Anatole Dauman
produzione/production
Argos Films
