Davos Hanich,
Etienne Becker,
Hélène Chatelain,
Jacques Branchu,
Jacques Ledoux
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Earth lies in ruin after a nuclear war. The few surviving humans begin researching time travel, hoping to send someone back to the pre-war world for food, supplies and maybe a solution to their dire p...( read more
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"The victors stood guard over a kingdom of rats."
Experimental, avant-garde depiction of post-apocalyptic time travel told through a series of stills in slide-show progression. As odd as that sounds, the whole thing works very, very well.
I think being a big fan of photography helped me in enjoying this film as much as i did but to be honest, i did loose a little of my concentration before the film was over. That said, this film is a visual treat with a surreal dreamlike story that is both original and thought pro...( read more)
I think most people know this short has been credited as a strong influence in movies such as "12 Monkeys" (a remake) and "Terminator". Ostensibly this is a fascinating slide show, with a couple of seconds of motion in the middle. The film has left me with indelible images, but I...( read more)
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One of the most influential (whether you or the filmmakers its inspired have ever even seen it) sci-fi films ever made.
An amazing achievement of sight and sound. The film is comprised entirely of still images, but what is cinema if not just still images 2...( read more)
An extraordinary experimental short French movie with a story light years ahead of it's time. It uses a series of black and white still photographs with a narrator telling us the tale of a man sent back in time after a nuclear war has devastated France. He volunteers to be used a...( read more)
Oh, you have to watch this. Track it down and give yourself the pleasure of some fine sci-fi. You deserve it.
There is indeed a difference between this movie and 12 Monkeys... 12 Monkeys is "inspired by La Jetée". Now inspired is too weak a word, there would be no 12 Monkeys without this movie. Period.
Now I understand why calling it the "original 12 Monkeys" would startle you, but then again, how else do you want to call it? Its not because 12 monkeys is 4 times longer than this that its not directly inspired by it. Its not because la Jetée is a "photo-novel" that the live action 12 Monkeys isn't the remake.
But I loved 12 Monkeys, astonishingly they "remade" La Jetée extraordinarly well.
People need to stop calling this the "original 12 monkeys". That's like calling Yojimbo the original A Fistful of Dollars. There's a huge difference,please.
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