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| La Jetée.Chris Marker.(1963) 1/3 |
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Directed by Chris Marker (inspiration for Terry
Gilliam's 12 Monkeys)
La Jetee's Script pt.1
This is the story of a man, marked by an image
from his childhood. The
violent scene that upsets him, and whose meaning
he was to grasp only years
later, happened on the main jetty at Orly, the
Paris airport, sometime
before the outbreak of World War III.
Orly, Sunday. Parents used to take their children
there to watch the
departing planes.
On this particular Sunday, the child whose story
we are telling was bound
to remember the frozen sun, the setting at the end
of the jetty, and a
woman's face.
Nothing sorts out memories from ordinary moments.
Later on they do claim
remembrance when they show their scars. That face
he had seen was to be the
only peacetime image to survive the war. Had he
really seen it? Or had he
invented that tender moment to prop up the madness
to come?
The sudden roar, the woman's gesture, the
crumpling body, and the cries of
the crowd on the jetty blurred by fear.
Later, he knew he had seen a man die.
And sometime after came the destruction of Paris.
Many died. Some believed themselves to be victors.
Others were taken
prisoner. The survivors settled beneath Chaillot,
in an underground network
of galleries.
Above ground, Paris, as most of the world, was
uninhabitable, riddled with
radioactivity.
The victors stood guard over an empire of rats.
The prisoners were subjected to experiments,
apparently of great concern to
those who conducted them.
The outcome was a disappointment for some - death
for others - and for
others yet, madness.
One day they came to select a new guinea pig from
among the prisoners.
He was the man whose story we are telling.
He was frightened. He had heard about the Head
Experimenter. He was
prepared to meet Dr. Frankenstein, or the Mad
Scientist. Instead, he met a
reasonable man who explained calmly that the human
race was doomed. Space
was off-limits. The only hope for survival lay in
Time. A loophole in Time,
and then maybe it would be possible to reach food,
medicine, sources of
energy.
This was the aim of the experiments: to send
emissaries into Time, to
summon the Past and Future to the aid of the
Present.
But the human mind balked at the idea. To wake up
in another age meant to
be born again as an adult. The shock would be too
great.
Having only sent lifeless or insentient bodies
through different zones of
Time, the inventors where now concentrating on men
given to very strong
mental images. If they were able to conceive or
dream another time, perhaps
they would be able to live in it.
The camp police spied even on dreams.
This man was selected from among a thousand for
his obsession with an image
from the past.
Nothing else, at first, put stripping out the
present, and its racks.
They begin again.
The man doesn't die, nor does he go mad. He
suffers.
Tags : chris marker la jetee jetée 12 twelve monkeys inspired france terry gilliam james cole jeffrey goines |
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Affichage : 33782
Durée : 540 s |
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The classic short that inspired Terry Gilliam_s
"12 Monkeys". Director Chris Marker_s preffered
cut. (Cortos_8)
Tags : cortostv films jetee |
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Affichage : 77619
Durée : 1580 s |
| Les Astronautes : Chris Marker/Walerian Borowczyk : PART 1 |
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Made in 1959 by Chris Marker and Walerian
Borowczyk. Ostensibly, it deals with a scientist's
flight into outer space where, among other things,
he spies on a young woman (Ligia Borowczyk) on his
way up and later even saves a small spaceship from
attack by a larger one - only for it to destroy
his own vessel, which plummets back to Earth! The
unusual animation combines the standard cartoon
style with jazzy paper cut-outs and intermittent
use of live-action, an approach which reached mass
appeal a decade later with the arrival of "Monty
Python's Flying Circus".
Tags : Les astronautes chris marker walerian bobrowczyk polish 2d animated film stop motion ligia borowczyk |
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Affichage : 9258
Durée : 359 s |
| Roseville Pottery Historical Marker |
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Dedication ceremony of the historical marker
commemorating the site of the Roseville Pottery
Company in Zanesville, Ohio. Members of the Iowa
Art Pottery Association celebrate the unveiling.
IAPA president Ted Priester presided over the
festivities which included remarks by Zanesville
Mayor Howard Zwelling, president of the American
Art Pottery Association, Arnie Small, president of
the Pottery Lovers, Joe Tunnell and Ohio
Historical Society curator, Stacia Kuceyeski.
Scott C. Holgorsen, graphic designer and IAPA club
member was in attendance to admire the results of
the months of work and effort he and other club
members put into the project.
Tags : Roseville Pottery Historical Marker Zanesville Ohio collectors antique Iowa Art Association ceramics |
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Affichage : 2396
Durée : 591 s |
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