released: 16 February 1962

about the film: La Jetée is a French science fiction film directed by Chris Marker and associated with the Left Bank artistic movement, constructed most entirely from still photos it tells the story of a post nuclear war experiment in time travel. It is shot in black and white and is 28 minutes long. It won the Prix Jean Vigo for short film. The 1995 science fiction film 12 Monkeys was inspired by and borrows several concepts directly from La Jetée. There are around 422 images in the film, the effects of using still photographs for the system of La Jetee is to make sure the audience understands . Still photography contributes to narratives by the idea that an image or a series of images can be used to tell a story or create a narrative .

plot: the film is about a man that was a prisoner and is sent back and forth, in and out of time in an experiment that attempts to unravel the fate and the solution to the problems of a post-apocalyptic world during the aftermath of World War III in Paris. The experiment results in him getting caught up in a perpetual reminiscence of past events that are recreated on an airport’s viewing pier.

production: La Jetée is constructed almost entirely from optically printed photographs playing out as a photomontage of varying rhythm. It contains only one brief shot (of the woman sleeping and suddenly waking up) originating on a motion-picture camera, this is due to the fact that Chris Marker could only afford to hire one for an afternoon. The editing and soundtrack of La Jetée adds to the intensity of the film with the use of cut-ins and fade-outs, choir, airplane etc adds a sort of .. to the film., it produces the eerie and unsettling nature adding to the theme of the apocalyptic destruction of World War III.