Sans Soliel

September 20, 2010 12:21 PM

Sans Soliel Directed by Chris Marker . France 1982, 16mm, color, 100 min. With English narration. "Marker’s ruminative, melancholy masterpiece channels the imagination of a lonely traveling cameraman—evoked in letters from distant Africa and Japan—into a profound meditation on the creative conjuring powers of memory, place and image. Among the most brilliant examples of the essay film, Sans Soleil uses a lyrical, associative structure to transform modern Japan into a vivid metaphor for the scintillating mosaic of fact, fiction and fantasy that defines the increasingly mediated image world in which we live. A crucial bridge between Marker’s adventurous earlier travel films and his growing interest in media and technology, Sans Soleil is one of Marker’s most dazzling and inexhaustible works." via Mrs Tsk *
posted by puny human (2 comments total)

The Criterion Collection release that has both Sans Soleil and La Jetee is one of my favorites. Both are reflective pieces, and La Jetee has been the direct inspiration for at least a few science fiction films.
posted by mikeh at 12:24 PM on September 20, 2010

Posted in August, although I can't complain too much if a repeat means a few more people see the film.
posted by theodolite at 12:30 PM on September 20, 2010