Am Rande des Rollfelds (Short 1962)

Am Rande des Rollfelds: Directed by Chris Marker. With Jean Négroni, Hélène Chatelain, Davos Hanich, Jacques Ledoux. The story of a man forced to explore his memories in the wake of World War III’s devastation, told through still images.

“I first saw u0026quot;La Jeteeu0026quot; in an introductory journalism class in the spring of 1973. The class was large, so large, in fact, that it was held in an auditorium rather than a conventional classroom. But when the film ended, there was about 30 seconds of stone-silence before the murmuring began. I sat slack-jawed and stunned and looked at Mary Ann, a girl who sat next to me and who I was slowly becoming friends with, to check her reaction. She looked equally stunned.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThirty years have passed and I have occasionally revisited that moment. Despite wanting to know Mary Ann better, I was too timid and never saw her again after that semester ended and despite being stunned by the film, for some reason, I had lost track of its title. All I remembered was a haunting scene at an airport with a guy wearing glasses. That was it.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eJust the other day and for no reason at all, I remembered the title u0026quot;La Jeteeu0026quot; out of the blue. The name just popped into my head. And, even stranger, when I was checking the TV listings earlier today, I found that u0026quot;La Jeteeu0026quot; was being shown on the Sundance Channel later.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI just finished watching it and I am as slack-jawed and stunned as I was thirty years ago. I guess the next logical thing will be to hear from Mary Ann. Just so long as I donu0026#39;t have to meet her at the airport.”