La Jetee Cine Roman Chris Marker HCDJ Stated First Edition 1992 12 Monkeys

  

First edition stated/ Oblong 8vo (20x25cm), original black cloth with golden-lettered spine, in dust jacket. Dust jacket with a touch of edge wear. Chris Marker's groundbreaking post- apocalyptic time-travel film.

Was released nearly 60 years ago and still continues to inspire artist from all different fields. Marker himself was inspired by Hitchcock's. By Adolfo Bioy Casares, both dealing with time, memory and consciousness. So influential is not only its spiraling time travel narrative, but also its composition of still photographic images that builds a film by breaking its most basic rule - the moving image. This is the genuine, scarce first edition from 1992 by. And not what is very creatively stated as the first edition elsewhere. The award-winning graphic designer Bruce Mau, who was also the creative director of. Tried six years to convince Chris Marker to translate the film into a book, and only for. Thirtieth anniversary in 1992, it was finally published by.

Chris Marker's written response to the book dummy that Mau had sent him was in turn used by Bruce Mau as the blurb for the book. This book version of La Jetée is, to my mind, astonishingly beautiful. It brings a total freshness to the work and a new way to use photos to deal with dramatic events.

Not a film's book, but a book in its own right-the real ciné-roman announced in the film's credits.