LA JETEE

First walking into the curtained off room in the walker, i assumed LA JETEE was just another fartsy piece of work, before i knew it i was totally enthralled.

LA JETEE 28 minutes of pictures with a single narrator telling a story of a man in paris just after World War III. The man the story follows is a prisoner who is trapped in Dr. Frankenstein's Lab. The Lab technicians are trying to expirament with time travel on the prisoner's. They want to send a man into the future to find a way to save the present, but to send a man into the future they had to clear his memory of the past. The main Character (who was never named) goes through days of electrotherapy, in hours, he trips backwards in time a memory of a womans face from when he was a child, he is an adult now and falls in love with the woman, she is the only thing that his brain can focus on after all of the expiraments and torture. Every time he goes back he finds the woman again, in another part of Paris, and the woman comes to accept the main character a ghost who keeps popping up in her life. At the end of movie the main is able to go into the future and get a power source, and as a last request from the people in the future, he asked to be sent into the past where he would be with the woman, but when he goes back, he realizes there is no past and time is a perception that humans have created, and he dies.

LA JETEE was made in 1928 by Chris marker and is a beautiful use of photography to try and convey a message of how humans memory works.