La Jetee on TCM

You may want to set your DVRs to record La Jetee on TCM Monday morning at 4am. This is a half-hour short film that inspired Terry Gilliam's Twelve Monkey's.

"Using only still photographs, voiceover narration, sound effects and music, it tells the story of a World War III survivor whose vivid memories make him the subject of time travel experiments. In only one shot of the film--that of "the Woman" opening her eyes in the morning--does the image move. Through such deceptively simple means Chris Marker explores the paradoxes of time travel and, on a deeper philosophical level, the relationships between image and memory, and word and image."

I watched it on YouTube a few years ago, and can't say I liked it, but I look forward to giving it another shot on a bigger screen sitting on a couch.