Photography in Film - Lecture: La Jetée

• My notes: transitions vary in length, dissolve and quick cuts, fade to black, pan around the photo, strong commentary, diagetic sounds, non-diagetic sounds, real voices in German? Backing music, heartbeat. Ancient animals - dinosaurs?! Many different angles of the same thing
• What is owed to photography and what is owed to cinema and what crosses over
• Photography - still images (pan, rostrum), duration & time, sound
• Cinema - strong narrative, soundtrack, eyes moving - illusion of present time
• Chris Marker (1962)
• author, movie maker, journalist, animator (documentary film maker)
• French resistance (formative experience to attitude to world) 
• Informed by torture at Auschwitz (plus Algeria)
• Politically motivated
• Time/memory
• Low profile - rarely interviews
• Weaves his thoughts into films
• Cultural history - what forms us
• La Jetée - only entirely fictional film
• Deals with fears of the future
• New Wave - low budget films
• Artform - pushing borders, experimenting or dead!
• Left Bank Group
• Saw New Wave as mainstream!
• Alan Resnais/Agnes Varda/Chris Marker
• Marker worked on Resnais' holocaust film 'Night & Fog'
• Films to educate as well as entertain
• Fictional & Documentary
• Melancholic/Nostalgic - Hiroshima - Sans soleil
• Giving voice over influences image
• Stills enhance haunting film narrative
• Photographs are an excellent way to time travel
• Raymond Bellour
• Substituted themselves for my memory