La jetée, the fifth shot
Le cinquième plan de La jetée
- 2024
- France
- 97'
- French with English subtitles
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- Sat 22
- March
- 21h00
- Arlequin 1
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In the Chris Marker exhibition at the Cinémathèque Française, my cousin Jean-Henri recognised himself in La Jetée.
Shot from behind, the photograph of him and his parents on the observation deck at Orly Airport, was the fifth shot of the film. If it was him, he was the hero of the film as a child. Our whole family recognized them, and I was drawn into his vision and the secret paths it opened up of our family history and the history of those images. It was to Orly Airport that we had arrived from Algeria in 1962. As for Marker…
Dominique Cabrera
Born in Algeria in 1957 into a pieds-noirs family, Dominique Cabrera entered Idhec after studying literature. She shot her first documentaries in the suburbs, including Chroniques d’une banlieue ordinaire, Réjane dans la tour, Une poste à la Courneuve. In Rester là-bas, she deals with the pieds-noirs who became Algerian citizens, and takes contemporary Algeria as the starting point for her first feature film, L’autre côté de la mer. Demain et encore demain, journal 95 opens the series of autobiographical films that she continues with Grandir and Un Mensch. She alternates between fiction and social documentaries, with great freedom of form and duration. She teaches cinema at Harvard, the Fémis and the Sorbonne. This spring she will be shooting Des femmes comme les autres with Hélène Vincent and Yolande Moreau…
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- Sat 22
- March
- 21h00
- Arlequin 1
- Book
- + rencontre/Q&A
- Production : Ad Libitum
- Distribution : Les Alchimistes
- Photography : Karine Aulnette, Magali Léonard, Mariana Potier
- Sound : François Waledisch, Elias Boughedir, Nathalie Vidal
- Editing : Sophie Brunet, Dominique Barbier
- Music : Béatrice Thiriet, Elise Bertrand, Oscar Turbant
- Copy contact : Ad Libitum / contact@adlibitumproduction.fr