Sans Soleil - Invisible Sun

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Movie
German title Sans Soleil - Invisible Sun
Original title Sans soleil
Country of production France
original language French
Publishing year 1983
length 100 minutes
Rod
Director Chris Marker
script Chris Marker
music Chris Marker
as Michel Krasna
camera Chris Marker
as Sandor Krasna
occupation

Sans Soleil - Invisible Sun ( French sans soleil 'without sun' ) is a French essay film from 1983 by Chris Marker . The title refers to the song cycle of the same name by Modest Mussorgsky . Sans Soleil is a meditation on the nature of human memory. In 2003 he was accepted into the film canon by the Federal Agency for Civic Education .

content

The film is a rich mixture of thoughts, images and scenes mainly from Japan and Guinea-Bissau . Other scenes were filmed in Paris and San Francisco . A narrator reads fictional letters from the invented cameraman Sandor Krasna, who also describes his travel experiences in them. The change of topics and locations is free flowing. The film reports on the beauties of nature and shows them, while at the same time illuminating their threat from civilization.

reception

Jochen Brunow described the film in the Metzler Filmlexikon as a “film of great density and complexity, not a classic essay film. […] Travel descriptions, thoughts expressed in letters, poems, anecdotes, thematic reflections on images and the cinema alternate artfully with one another. Sans soleil relies on the analytical power of images, on the salvation of external reality. The film achieves this by bringing the great flood of images, the numerical multiplication of the existing images and the decomposition of their image function through the electronic processing in the computer into the body of the film itself. "

The lexicon of international films rates the film as "a captivating intellectual adventure of seeing and hearing."

Hans-Christoph Blumenberg writes in Der Zeit “'Sans Soleil' [...] is the intimate diary of a picture collector, a fetishist who speaks of the“ magical function of the eye ”. Marker is addicted to the pictures, but doesn't trust them. They remain fleeting, indeterminate, and sometimes harshly dismissive. Marker loves the 'impermanence of things'. He says: "Poetry arises from uncertainty". […] 'Sans Soleil' is an impossible film: an expedition report into the inside of the magical eye, an ethnographic essay, the diary of someone possessed. It doesn't fit in a movie theater. You have to see him. "

In the Süddeutsche Zeitung , Fritz Göttler writes in an obituary for Chris Marker about the film “Sans Soleil from 1983 is the turning point in Chris Marker's work and a turning point in modern cinema. A movement emanates from the film that points to the future as well as the past. You can no longer make films as you did before and you can no longer watch the films in the familiar manner. It is as if you were put in a spiral like the time-traveling hero in his 1963 film 'La jetée', in which he proved that it is not the flow of images that counts in the cinema, but what stops them . The art of evasion at its finest. The film consists of crystallized individual moments in which the cinema tries to escape the present, but through which reality penetrates the cinema. "

Awards

Sans Soleil received a “Special Mention” at the OCIC Awards at the 1983 Berlinale . The British Film Institute awarded Chris Marker the Sutherland Trophy that same year .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vincent Canby : Sans Soleil (1982). In: The New York Times . Retrieved July 12, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Ralph Eue: Sans Soleil - Invisible Sun. In: The film canon . April 21, 2010. Retrieved August 23, 2014.
  3. ^ Jochen Brunow : Metzler Filmlexikon: Sans Soleil. In: State Media Center Baden-Württemberg . Retrieved August 23, 2014.
  4. ↑ Sans Soleil - Invisible Sun. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 23, 2014 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  5. ↑ Hans-Christoph Blumenberg : The world as a lost property. An impossible film: essay, diary, expedition report. In: The time . September 2, 1983. Retrieved August 23, 2014.
  6. ↑ Fritz Göttler: Filmmaker Chris Marker is dead. Under the protection of creative madness. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . July 31, 2012. Retrieved August 23, 2014.