Description
A man confronts his past during an experiment that attempts to find a solution to the problems of a post-apocalyptic world caused by a world war.
After World War III, Paris lies in ruins. A scientist researching time travel hopes to send subjects to various time periods. He finds a suitable subject in a prisoner with a vivid pre-war childhood memory. The prisoner travels in time and comes to understand an incident he witnessed as a child.
About the director:
Chris Marker
French filmmaker, writer, photographer, and multimedia artist — a key figure of the Rive Gauche group and a pioneer of the subjective documentary, known for poetic, essayistic films that explore memory, war, politics, and culture with curiosity, irony, and compassion over six decades. Famously elusive, he avoided photographs, gave contradictory biographical accounts, and worked under numerous pseudonyms (including Hayao Yamaneko and Guillaume-en-Égypte), leading Philippe Dubois to call him “the most celebrated of the unknown filmmakers” — a man, as his website put it, “without biography.”