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- BFI identifier385110
- Date1962 (Release)
- Production countryFrance
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- SynopsisIn the aftermath of World War III, Paris lies in ruins with the survivors of the War living beneath the Palais de Chaillot, in a network of underground galleries. A scientist researching time travel, hopes to send test subjects to different time periods and identifies a prisoner who has a vivid pre-war childhood memory, as a suitable subject for the experiment. After travelling through time, the prisoner comes to understand the significance of the incident that he witnessed as a child. (Synopsis)
- Work historySome published versions of the credits name Jean Chiabaud as Cinematographer but in an email written in 2007 to Argos Films, Chris Marker clarified that Chiabaud’s name was used only to satisfy the requirement of the Centre national de la cinématographie (CNC) that a film should include a credit for a Cinematographer with professional accreditation. In the email Marker states that ‘you will find in many films of that time names which are pure bluffs, credited only to neutralise the bureaucrats – which was the case with old Chiabaud (whom I nevertheless asked to film a wide shot of the jetty at Orly, of which I kept only a still image, that in the title sequence) who had to feature in the CNC dossier but certainly not in any technical credits.’ [Chris Darke, ‘La Jetée’. London: Palgrave on behalf of the British Film Institute, 2016, p. 91.] In the opening credits the words ‘Avec la participation du Service de la Recherche de la R.T.F.’ (‘With the participation of Service de la Recherche de la R.T.F.’) appear on screen. For a brief moment the word ‘Recherche’ (‘search’) is replaced by the word ‘Trouvaille’ (‘a thing found by chance’) before reverting back to the original credit.
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- CreditsA photo-roman by: Chris Marker
Presents: Argos-Films
With the participation of: Service de la Recherche de la R.T.F.
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La Jetée (Original)
The Pier (Alternative)
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