Set in Paris after the Third World War; an imprisoned man is being used by scientists to investigate time travel. He is haunted by a childhood memory of the pier at Orly Airport, a woman’s face, a man’s death. The fiction is constructed through still photographs. Photographs - images of the past - thus replace moving images with their power to create the illusion of the present.
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Collection
In ACMI's collection
Credits
Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
312423
Language
English
Audience classification
PG
Subject categories
Communications, Infrastructure, & Transport → Airports
Crafts & Visual Arts → Photography
Drama → New wave films → New wave films - France
Fantasy & Science Fiction → Science fiction films
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Memory
Magic, Occult & Supernatural → Time travel in motion pictures
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Black and White
Holdings
VHS; Access Print (Section 1)