Each black-and-white frame is striking, dynamic, surprising, and tragic; they mark you forever.

One of the best of all SF films is this haunting, apocalyptic 27-minute French short by the great Chris Marker.

The soundtrack's texture is similarly sparse, and the fluid montage leads the viewer into the sensation of watching moving images. Until, that is, an extraordinary epiphany when an image genuinely does move.

Marker, with a disruptive aesthetic, experiments with the conceptual frameworks of film editing, but it is still a hasty and pretentious experiment. [Full review in Spanish]