La jetee Sans soleil / [videorecording] ; Sans soleil Argos Films ;two films by Chris Marker. - [Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, c2007. - 1 videodisc (130 min.) : sd., b&w and col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (44 p. : col. ill. ; 18 cm.) - Criterion collection ; 387 . - Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 387 .

Special fratures include: interactive menus, scene selection, and Chris on Chris (an insight into Chris Marker by Chris Darke). Credits from container & accompanying booklet. 2003 DVD release of the motion pictures originally produced in 1962 (La jetée) and 1983 (Sans soleil). Booklet laid in container. Special features: video interviews with filmmaker Jean-Pierre Gorin (from 2005); "Chris on Chris" (a video piece on Marker by writer Chris Darke, 10 min.); two excerpts from the French TV series "Court-circuit (le magazine)" irected by Luc Lagier (a 2 min. long look at David Bowie's 1993 music video for "Jump they say", which was inspired by "La jet�e" & a 9 min. long analysis of Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo" and its influence on Marker) Booklet contains a critical essay by Marker scholar Catherine Lupton ("Memory's apostle : Chris Marker, 'La jetee', and 'Sans soliel'"), an autobiographical essay by Marker fans Catherine Brighton & Andrew Brighton ("This isthe story"), an interview with Marker by Samuel Douhaire &Annick Rivoire ("Rare Marker : an interview", originally published in French in 2003, translated into English by Marker in 2007); and various notes by Marker

La jetee (1963, 27 min.) -- Sans soleil = Sunless (1983, 103 min.)

La jetee: writer and director, Chris Marker ; editor, JeanRavel ; narrator, Jean Negroni ; music, Trevor Duncan. Sans soleil: conception and editing, Chris Marker La jetee: writer and director, Chris Marker ; editor, JeanRavel ; narrator, Jean Negroni ; music, Trevor Duncan. Sans soleil: conception and editing, Chris Marker

Cast for La jetee: Helene Chatelain, Davos Hanich, Jacques Ledoux, Andre Heinrich, Jacques Branchu ; narrated by Jean Negroni. Sans soleil: Letters read by Alexandra Stewart

In 'La Jetee', which is told almost entirely in stills, the viewer is taken on the journey of a man who is travelling from the future back to his childhood. 'Sans Soleil' is an audio-visual mix of footage filmed in Africa, Japan, Iceland, France and the USA. The result is a study of the 'dreams of the human race' which looks at the banal, the exotic and the popular culture of classic movies and video games, and contrasts these images with the forgotten misery of the Third World Sans soleil: Actress Alexandra Stewart reads and comments on the letters she receives from (fictional) Sandor Krasna, a world-traveling freelance cameraman. Explores the immense diversity of the human species and its differing societies


DVD format.


In French with optional English subtitles
Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing


Time travel--Drama.
Photographers--Drama
Experimental films.
Short films
Science fiction films
Films for the hearing impaired

791.4375 / JET 2007