In the apocalypse, will you choose to transcend the dimension of time to become a photon in the universe, or will you return to the old days to experience a little humanity?
The magic is that this is a still movie, and the whole film tells a story that seems to have nothing to do with science fiction with frame by frame of still black and white pictures. The narration and sound effects subtly link these images together, giving it a unique rhythm and poetry. We grieve as the man looks, we grieve as the man frowns, resetting his choices in our hearts. And in the leap of time, existence itself is torn apart
"I met you in a timeless country, we walked, the only feeling was the mottled mark on the wall"
Keywords: experimental film, french, new wave, black and white, short film, surrealism, static
Released: 1962-02-16
Co-director: Night and Fog
Same style: Lost in the afternoon with an Andalusian dog
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In the post-nuclear war apocalypse, the world was in ruins, and only a few humans survived. They are faced with the dilemma of extreme shortage of materials. The "space" of the earth is no longer enough to meet the basic survival needs. The authorities and the scientific community plan to travel through time and space to find answers from time and seek the help of future human beings.
A man is a guinea pig in the time travel experiment. A childhood scene of witnessing the death of a passerby remains in his memory, and a woman smiling at him, a scene that has recurred in recent dreams. These dream fragments were caught by the authorities, so he became the latest experimenter. The man didn't know that it was the scene of witnessing the death of passers-by that made him an experimenter.
The experiment is immature, too many people have gone crazy, and the time and space shuttle has not yet succeeded. At first, only fragments of the past can be seen, fragments of the woman's life. As the experiment progresses, he can slowly talk to and get along with women. He saw the real bedroom, the wind, the child. He can be precisely delivered to any corner of this time and space. The experiment was successful.
The man found the man of the future. He said: Your existence proves that human beings have survived. We need help. The future man gave him enough power to start modern industry. After completing the mission, the authorities are ready to obliterate. The man is about to be erased. In the depths of the prison, there is a message from the future man, inviting him into the future. Perhaps, it is also interesting when a photon freely travels through time and space? The man refused, and he asked to go back to the scene in his childhood dream. The woman was waiting for him.
He returned to the airport where he ran as a child, he saw the woman smiling at him, and he ran towards her. Suddenly, he saw the man sent by the authorities to hunt him down.
A shot rang out and he fell. It turned out that when he was young, he witnessed his own death.
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Here, the cycle of time is like a Möbius ring. People in the future change the past for the sake of the present, and people in the past use the past as a threat. The authorities appeared in the man's dream, and the authorities chose him for the experiment.
In this time and space shuttle, the meaning of human existence is stripped from existence itself. Existence is fragmented into memories, dreams, and fantasies.
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