Prenant prétexte d’un cameraman imaginaire qui enverrait des lettres du bout du monde – Japon, Islande, Cuba, Guinée-Bissau, Chris Marker filme des enfants dans le Nord, suit à Tokyo des passagers endormis dans le métro, cite ses propres films, fait un pèlerinage sur les lieux de tournage de « Vertigo », et, son film enfin achevé, l’insère dans un ordinateur qui brouille les images et les fait passer dans la Zone, cet ailleurs exploré par Tarkovski dans « Stalker ».

Le documentaire phare de Chris Marker !

Produit par Argos Films (Anatole Dauman)

Inspired and inspiring, Sunless is quite the best documentary film ever made! It takes the form of a visual letter, here are the musings and recollections of an intelligent, observant and inquisitive man who has been around the world and back. He has a sense of humour, he’s well read and he wants to share with you the wonders he’s seen. He’s taken note of the tiniest details, of apparently insignificant moments that linger, that he knows make for a bigger picture. The primary locus is Tokyo, the people and their customs, the juxtaposition of the intimate neighbourhood festivals and robotic technology. Chris Marker is cinema’s greatest essayist and this dreamy philosophical and sociological experimental film is like nothing you have seen before, it is that rare phenomenon – a demanding but rewarding film experience.

France, 1982, 100min 35mm, 16 mm

Director: Chris Marker
Country: France
Original Format: 1.66:1
Producer: Argos Films (Anatole Dauman)

Cast:
Voice : Alexandra Stewart / Singing : Arielle Dombasle

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