Friday, August 22, 2014, 5pm & 6:30pm & 8pm, 9:30pm
Brooklyn Academy of Music Rose Cinemas
30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217
La Jetée (1962)
With Hélène Chatelain, Davos Hanich
Run time: 28min
One of Marker’s rare purely fictional works, this self-described “photo-roman” is a haunting science-fiction love story set in a post-apocalyptic future and told almost entirely in still images—until one breathtakingly exquisite moment. Radical, brilliant, and hugely influential, La Jetée is “miraculous, as if one was seeing and feeling in an instant the revolution by which still pictures became cinema” (The New York Times).
Statues Also Die (1953)
Directed by Chris Marker & Alain Resnais
Run time: 30min
“When men have died they enter history. When statues have died they enter art.” Banned for several years by the French government, Marker and Alain Resnais’ remarkable film essay explores the devastating effects of colonialism via its impact on African art.
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http://www.bam.org