How the Influential Time-Travel Movie La Jetee Was Made (Almost) Entirely out of Still Photographs

When you think about it, Terry Gilliam is using still images too. It's just that he's using 24 still images every second, while Marker uses, on average, one image every four seconds.

In La Jetée, we're forced to sit with every frame, and thus to notice that they're dead: all movement is gone, and we're left with these lifeless fragments of time, an appropriate visualization of the theme of memory.

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