A Celebration of Chris Marker’s “Immemory: Gutenberg Edition”
Plus a Presentation on “Immemory”
Presented by Exact Change
Wednesday, June 4 & Thursday, June 5
VERTIGO and LA JETEE • Wed, Jun 4 at 7:00
SANS SOLEIL and IMMEMORY • Thu, Jun 5 at 6:30
We celebrate the print release of the renowned filmmaker, photographer, and author Chris Marker’s “Immemory: Gutenberg Version” from Damon Krukowski and Naomi Yang’s Exact Change imprint with this mini-festival of two of Marker’s most influential films and one of cinema’s greatest films that was in turn a hugely influential work on Marker. Once upon a time, Marker’s “Immemory” was an interactive CD-ROM which almost immediately became obsolete upon its release in 1997. Now, almost 30 years later, this remarkable work of idiosyncratic memoir finally finds its way to the printed page with an edition that was conceived, initiated, and titled by Marker prior to his death in 2012.
For these special screenings, we start on Wednesday by pairing Marker’s landmark, still image and narration sci-fi short LA JETÉE with Alfred Hitchcock’s magnificent VERTIGO. Both films, like Immemory itself concern themselves with the labyrinthine subjectivity of human memory. In LA JETÉE, a man is sent both to the past and future as part of an attempt to save his present and realizes that his life has folded over on itself in a way that he never could have imagined. In VERTIGO, a down on his luck ex-cop becomes obsessed when a woman he is charged with following dies but he later meets her exact double.
On Thursday, we welcome Exact Change’s Damon Krukowski and Naomi Yang and Isabel Ochoa Gold, the editor of “Immemory: Gutenberg Edition”, to give a brief presentation about the project and the original CD-ROM followed by a screening of Chris Marker’s SANS SOLEIL, a sprawling-and-yet-intimate travelogue. SANS SOLEIL is a masterful work of pseudo-documentary as Marker’s own ‘home movies’ are woven together by a fictional narration.
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