On the tenth day, images begin to ooze like confessions.
The avatar of Chris Marker’s cat Guillaume-en-Egypte, who represents Chris Marker in machinima.
The photograph of Linda Hamilton on the set of the new Terminator movie reminds me of the only time in my life I ever considered enrolling at a gym (so I could do one-arm chin-ups and fire a shotgun with one arm), and of the film that must’ve inspired Terminator (and 12 Monkeys, and Red Spectacles, and others): Chris Marker’s La Jetee. Which is really a series of photographs with a voice-over narrator, and only one scene where someone moves. Apparently Marker only had a film camera for one day. Now we can make movies with a basic phone, and none of them are La Jetee.
Chris Marker would’ve been 97 years old last July 29. He also died on July 29, a coincidence which would’ve been appreciated by an artist whose work deals with time and memory. Let’s watch La Jetee again. Are we sure we’ve seen La Jetee? That scene we remember–has it already happened? Is it a memory, is it the future?
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