La jetée
"Time weaves itself effortlessly around them" and they are trapped in that time, isolating themselves from the present. The ground, disappearing under his feet like blurring images, has never been as real as it was when he took his last breath.
La Jetée (The Pier) is Chris Martin’s 1962 short film. La jétee is a science fiction narrative beyond its time, consisting of photo frames and voice narration. This collage work inspired by La Jetée creates its fiction around the pier, which also gave its name to the film. The pier was the scene of events that we saw from the beginning of the story from different perspectives and different time sections. This narrative is also an interpretation of how the breaking points in fiction, dynamics can transform the space by integrating the story with the space or how we can tell the story in context.
Over time, the main character begins to detach from the moment he is trapped inside, the images become faint and blurred. When he thinks he has reached the moment he was trying to reach, what he reached is death. And with death he leaves his consciousness, memory, and life. With sharp geometries, the parts and characters that break apart as one moves in the flow symbolize this separation. Disintegrating images highlight the naive dramaticism of life that ends in nothingness.
