An art film by Chris Marker.
Videos and descriptive narrative are used to illustrate scenes from around the world with a focus on Japan and Africa.
The English name of this film is Sunless. The scenes show a wide variety of subjects from the mundane scene of people sleeping on a train to the shocking footage of a giraffe being shot and killed. Some of the footage is treated with a Spectron video synthesizer, giving it an abstract and almost ghost-like quality. Over all of this, a calm female voice narrates as if reading from letters sent by a videographer. I thought it was worth watching. If you like slightly strange art films, this would be a good one to see. I'm rating it adequate.
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