La Jetée

Chris Marker's La Jet?e is 28 minutes long and almost entirely made up of black-and-white still images. Since its release in 1964, the film - which Marker described as a 'photo-novel' - has haunted generations of viewers and inspired writers, artists and film-makers. Its spiralling narrative of post-nuclear war time-travel narrative has influenced many other films, including the Terminator series and Terry Gilliam's Hollywood 'remake' Twelve Monkeys (1995).

But as Marker rarely gave interviews, little is really known about the origins of La Jet?e or the ideas behind it. In this groundbreaking study, Chris Darke draws on rare archival material, including previously unpublished correspondence and production documents, to examine the making of the film. He explores how Marker's only fiction film was influenced both by his early work as a writer and by Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958), and considers how La Jet?e's imagery can be seen to 'echo' throughout Marker's extraordinarily diverse oeuvre.

Author: Chris Darke
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: British Film Institute
Published: 07/29/2016
Series: BFI Film Classics
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.40h x 5.30w x 0.20d
ISBN: 9781844576425
2016 Edition