La Jetée: ciné-roman

"This book version of La Jet?e is, to my mind, astonishingly beautiful.It brings a total freshness to the work and a new way to use photos to deal withdramatic events. Not a film's book, but a book in its own right;the real cin?-romanannounced in the film's credits.";Chris MarkerLa Jet?e, the legendary sciencefiction film about time and memory after a nuclear apo

"This book version of La Jet?e is, to my mind, astonishingly beautiful.It brings a total freshness to the work and a new way to use photos to deal withdramatic events. Not a film's book, but a book in its own right;the real cin?-romanannounced in the film's credits.";Chris MarkerLa Jet?e, the legendary sciencefiction film about time and memory after a nuclear apocalypse, was released in 1964and is considered by many critics to be among the greatest experimental films evermade. (It provided the basis for Terry Gilliam's 1995 film 12 Monkeys.) ChrisMarker, who is the undisputed master of the film essay, composed thispostapocalyptic story almost entirely of black-and-white still photographs. Thestory concerns an experiment in recovering and changing the past through the actionof memory, yet the film can be read as a poem dominated by a single moving image, which in its context becomes one of the supreme moments in the history of film.ThisZone Books edition reproduces the film's original images along with the script inboth English and French.