For this video we had to produce a set of images for a video based story. The influence for this video was a film called La Jetee.
La Jetee is about a man who is a prisoner in WW2 in an abandoned Paris where survivors live in underground galleries. Scientists are researching time travel on test subjects living underground but not many people can handle the shock and either die or become crazy. They find a man who can withstand the shock and has a vague past but an obsessive memory. The man's memory was obsessed with a woman he had met on a train platform before witnessing an incident he did not understand, but remembered someone dying on the platform. The scientists manage to make his memory reach the time in the past when he met the woman and they develop and relationship. The scientists send the man to the future next where he meets some people who show him a destroyed society. Then he returns to the present time where the people he met in the future help him escape to the future but he asks to return to the pre war time in hope to find the mysterious woman. which he does and realizes that an agent is about to kill him. It is then when he is about to die that he realizes the incident he witnessed was his own death.
The film is made from still images in black and white. For me the film was confusing at times but the technique it was made in was very clever and seemed impossible when we had to recreate it but turned out to be quite easy. It was a lot of fun to make.
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