Still life: a director celebrated
La Jetée is 27 minutes of science fiction set in post-Apocalyptic Paris. This year is its 50th anniversary, and the Cork French Film Festival is screening it at CIT Wandesford Quay Gallery on Thursday. Marker died last year, and the screening is part of an installation to celebrate him.
Paul Callanan, the artistic director of the festival, developed this year’s programme around the La Jetée exhibition. “La Jetée is definitely Chris Marker’s best-known film,” he says. “Some people would say it’s very unlike Marker’s later work. The whole film is based on a kind of meditation on memory, and how your memory might not be quite as reliable as you think it is. Even though the film is told in stills, as you recall the film, after you watch it, your mind kind of fills in the blanks.”
