“Sunless” by Chris Marker
Sans Soleil (Sunless in English) is a 1983 film by French director Chris Marker. The title is from the song cycle Sunless by Modest Mussorgsky. Sans Soleil is a meditation on the nature of human memory and the inability to recall the context and nuances of memory and as a result, how the perception of personal and global histories are affected.
Plot
Stretching the genre of documentary, this experimental essay-film is a composition of thoughts, images and scenes, mainly from Japan and Guinea-Bissau, "two extreme poles of survival"[1]. Some other scenes were filmed in Iceland, Paris, and San Francisco. A female narrator reads from letters supposedly sent to her by the (fictitious) cameraman Sandor Krasna. Sans Soleil is often labelled as a documentary or travelogue, however it contains fictional elements and moves from one location to another without regard to a location or character-based narrative.
Source : Wikipedia
(Describing Sans Soleil in words is hard in French, so it’s even worse in English. Wiki’s description may not be perfect, but it gives an idea, and provides the background...)
“Sans soleil”
“Sans Soleil”, un film de Chris Marker
I was inspired by this movie about memories. The sequences follow on from each other as your spirit think about something which remember something else... Who have never try to go back the thread. I want to do something like the Chris Marker’s work. Try to do a way of memories.
