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Showing posts with label chris marker. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chris marker. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Sans Soleil (1983)


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.