A woman narrates the thoughts of a world traveler, meditations on time and memory expressed in words and images from places as far-flung as Japan, Guinea-Bissau, Iceland, and San Francisco.
Editing
Marker's associative cuts rewire how you see.
Writing
Narration so dense you'll need to pause and weep.
Direction
Invents an entire genre, then abandons it.
Director
Chris Marker
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Marker refused all photographs of himself; the 'Chris Marker' credited is likely a pseudonym, and he may have appeared uncredited as the cat.
The title references a song from Hitchcock's Marnie, not Vertigo—Marker's first of many misdirections about his actual influences.
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