Le souvenir d'un avenir = remembrance of things to come / Les Films de l'equinoxe et ARTE France présentent ; un film de Yannick Bellon & Chris Marker.
Publisher:
Icarus Films,
Copyright Date:
2008
Description:
1 videodisc (42 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Chris Marker's commentary (narrated/voice by Alexandra Stewart). Originally released by First Ran/Icarus Films in 2001. "Icarus Films is a new name of First Run/Icarus Films". -- cover sheet. Special features: Bonus film: "Colette" by Yannick Bellon. (29 min. / b&w / French w. English subtitles. / c. 1951, Les Films Jacqueline Jacoupy ; c. 2008, Les Films de l'Equinoxe).
Summary:
" ... codirected by Chris Marker and Bellon's daughter Yannick, uses Bellon's photographs to create a ... historical portrait of the two decades between 1935 and 1955. Leaping back and forth in time, from family portraits of Bellon and her two daughters, to her unique photographic record of pre-war Paris - the first surrealist exhibition, the 1937 Paris World's Fair, the birth of the Cinématheque Française, and the Popular Front, - to images from France's African colonies, the Spanish Civil War, the Second World War and the German Occupation, the images in this ... "cineessays" are complemented by Chris Marker's ... commentary (read by ... Alexandra Stewart), a complex rumination on the interrelations between photography, memory, thought and history."--Cover sheet.
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