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Chris Marker: La Jetée 1962 24 mins

This is Chris Marker’s experiment in filmic narrative, using still-pictures with only a fragment of motion-picture. “This is the story of a man marked by an image of his childhood, a violent scene which upset him, and whose meaning he was to grasp only years later, happened on the main pier (jetty) at Orly Airport, sometime before the outbreak of world war three.” Thus the creepy British voice-over echoes the opening frames of text that introduce Marker’s remarkable film.