‘La Jetee’ by Chris Marker was a film recommended to me in a tutorial for its use of still photography. It is a story that is almost entirely narrated using black and white stills. They are layered with sound effects, music and the narrator’s voice. The story is told of the survivors of a third world war in Paris, where scientists experiment on those that retreat underground in an effort to travel in time away from the present. The story is circular, starting and ending at the same point in time. The images tell the story, with the addition of sound to define the details. The only moving image throughout the whole film is of the woman in the story waking up and looking directly at the camera, there is no sound at this point. It provides the sense of a dream-like state, where the viewer gets a glimpse into the head of the man in the film. It is a moment in the film unusual in comparison to the rest, and it felt odd to see a moving image against all of the still frames, despite knowing that a majority of films are made entirely with the moving image. It was interesting to see how a full narrative could be told using the still frames, with the real emphasis on the sounds provided. I am considering the possibility of using sound and video work to convey my ideas, but I will have to conduct more research into this to see if it would provide the desired effect.
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AuthorThird Year BA Hons Fine Art student studying at Falmouth University Archives
April 2017
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