Laura, a French programmer, inherits the task of creating a game about the World War II Battle of Okinawa. Her research and interviews with Japanese experts and witnesses prompt her to reflect on life, humanity, and the lasting influence of history and memories.
Direction
Marker's unseen hand puppeteers every frame.
Writing
Script blurs fiction, documentary, and fever dream seamlessly.
Editing
Hypertext structure before hypertext existed.
Director
Chris Marker
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Marker filmed during the 1995 Okinawa rape incident, making the film's excavation of Japanese trauma against American military presence devastatingly contemporary.
The CD-ROM game Laura supposedly builds was real—Marker actually developed 'Immemory' (1997), making this film a meta-documentary about its own failed twin.
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