The Pier
General Information
- Original Title
- La Jetée
- Author/Creator
- Marker, Chris, director.
- Subtitles
- English
- Published
- France, 1962.
- Physical Description
- DVD-ROM (29 min.)
- Digital ver. identifier
- HU_OSA_00004841
Contents/Summary
- Summary
- Time travel, still images, and the aftermath of World War III. On the pier at Orly, a boy spies a woman with a winsome smile. If he were grown up, they might fall in love. Razed in World War III, Paris is rotten with radioactivity; in its subterranean passageways, prisoners are submitted to mind experiments. One of these prisoners is the boy, now an adult. Clinging to the image of the woman he saw on the pier, he is sent into the past, where he and the woman become lovers; but he realizes that she was killed in the war. His captors yank him out of this past to send him to the future, where he discovers that Paris has been rebuilt. The future accepts him, but he opts to return to the past, hoping that his beloved will be waiting for him. Chris Marker’s black-and-white photographic novel explores the paradoxes of time.
Subjects
- Genre
- Documentary films
Bibliographic Information
- Title Translation
- The Pier
- Note
- Verzio Film Festival Submission
- Library Special Collection
- Verzio Film Festival Submission
Holdings
| Item Type | Current Location | Call Number | Status | Shelving Location | Public Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DVD-ROM | OSA Film Library | FL Record 3207 | Available | - | - |
| Digital film | OSA Film Library | FL Record 3207 (HU_OSA_00004841.mp4) | Available | Access Copy, MP4 format |