Hi Fung-Lin, Just found 'Sans Soleil' (1983) directed by Chris Marker - on Youtube - saw it originally a while back now. It seems even better now :-)
"The title is from the song cycle Sunless by Modest Mussorgsky. Sans Soleil is a meditation on the nature of human memory, showing the inability to recall the context and nuances of memory and how, as a result, the perception of personal and global histories are affected. Stretching the genre of documentary, this experimental essay-film is a composition of thoughts, images and scenes, mainly from Japan and Guinea-Bissau, "two extreme poles of survival". Some other scenes were filmed in Iceland, Paris, and San Francisco. A female narrator reads from letters supposedly sent to her by the (fictitious) cameraman Sandor Krasna. Sans Soleil is often labeled as a documentary, travelogue, or essay-film. Despite the film's modest use of fictional content, it should not be confused as a mock-documentary; the fictitious content works as a device to assist meaning in the film which, along with its occasionally nondescript movement among locations and lack of character-based narrative, is derived from the juxtaposition of narrative and image." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2d4_YKpMQLc&feature=share wishing you well. marc > > Adieu Chris Marker. He was 92 years old. > http://www.mutanteggplant.com/vitro-nasu/2012/07/30/adieu-chris-marker/ > <http://www.mutanteggplant.com/vitro-nasu/2012/07/30/adieu-chris-marker/> > " Marker’s creative use of sound, images and text in his poetic, > political and philosophical documentaries made him one of the most > inventive of film-makers. > Marker’s interests lay in transitional societies – “life in the > process of becoming history,” as he put it. How do various cultures > perceive and sustain themselves and each other in the increasingly > intermingled modern world?" > > Recently I saw a documentary by Chris Marker on Akira Kurosawa Making > of "Ran" .. It was excellent.. now you can it on youtube. > > Fung Lin > > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour -- Other Info: Furtherfield - A living, breathing, thriving network http://www.furtherfield.org - for art, technology and social change since 1997 Also - Furtherfield Gallery& Social Space: http://www.furtherfield.org/gallery About Furtherfield: http://www.furtherfield.org/content/about Netbehaviour - Networked Artists List Community. http://www.netbehaviour.org http://identi.ca/furtherfield http://twitter.com/furtherfield _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
