From "Geography" to "Museum"——Chris Marker's Essay Film Mnemonics
As the pioneers and innovators of"essay film",Chris Marker and Godard have respectively constructed two aspects of contemporary paper films from different paths.Marker has constantly introduced internet digital media into his films and thus developed his style.From Sans Soleil,his works have constantly explored the theme of"media and memory".His CD-ROM work Immemory highlights his"essay film mnemonics":first,based on the media characteristics of CD-ROM,he investigated how to transform the"time"(history)of memory into"space"(geography),thus using technology to solve the"memory/forgetting"paradox;Then,in the context of iconography and cross media,Immemory constitutes a continuation of Warburg's Bilderatlas Mnemosyne.Thus,Marker's essay films constitute the image of a"library/museum/archive"as a"mental landscape".
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