La Jetée (1962)

La Jetée ("The Jetty", here referring to an outdoor viewing pier at an airport), is a 1962 French Science fiction featurette by Chris marker. Constructed almost entirely from still photos, it tells the 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.  La Jetée is constructed almost entirely from optically printed photographs playing out as a photomontage of varying rhythm. It contains only one brief shot (of the woman mentioned above sleeping and suddenly waking up) originating on a motion-picture camera, this due to the fact that Marker could only afford to hire one for an afternoon. The stills were taken with a Pentax Spotmatic and the motion-picture segment was shot with a 35mm Arriflex.The film has no dialogue aside from small sections of muttering in German and people talking in an airport terminal. The story is told by a voice-over narrator. The scene in which the hero and the woman look at a cut-away trunk of a tree is a reference to Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 film Vertigo which Marker also references in his 1983 film Sans soleil.

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