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Sans Soleil is often labeled a documentary, travelogue, or essay-film. Despite the film's modest use of fictional content, it should not be confused with a mockumentary.
Jun 25, 2007 · In the opening moments of Sans Soleil, a cinematic essay and travel film made up of asides and digressions that form a portrait of late twentieth-century civilization, Marker takes us from rural Iceland in 1965 to Japan in the early 1980s, with fleeting references to Africa, Île-de-France, and the Bijagos Islands.
An essay film, as a process, interwines certain stylistic and aesthetic characteristics, into its peculiar form: repetitions, at times arbitrary repetitions of words and images, a stylistic quality of unfinishedness and open-endedness.
Mar 9, 2009 · Sans Soleil is an essay film, yes, but the key is that it's Krasna's essay film, not Marker's, and even then the essay's content is augmented and corrupted, though not necessarily destructively so, by others: the narrator imbuing his words with inflection, such as hers is; Michel Krasna subtly flooding the proceedings with his unsettling ...
May 23, 2022 · The essay film is defined by its capability to embody an audiovisual thinking process. Chris Marker’s Sans soleil/Sunless (1983) is undoubtedly one of the highest expressions of this filmic form, which reflects on postmodernity through the nature of images.
Dec 14, 2017 · I briefly explained that, since it was also an attempt to visualise abstract concepts, Sans Soleil was known as an essay film. Yet this only complicated things further! The students wondered if other films we saw in the class were essayistic as well. Was Koyaanisqatsi an essay on humanity’s impact on the world?
Mar 17, 2013 · Notes on Sans Soleil. Murray Pomerance. March 2013. Feature Articles. Issue 66 | March 2013. 1. “I’ve been around the world several times, and now only banality still interests me.” At the beginning of Chris Marker’s Sans soleil (1983), a voice tells us, “He wrote” this. “He”: Marker? We have no reason to think so.
