La Jetée on 35 mm + Live Ballet

In correlation with a screening of Chris Marker's legendary French sci-fi feature 'La Jetée', Dallas Neo-Classical Ballet is excited to premiere a new work titled Revenir prior to the film. Featuring an original score by composer Lane Harder, a series of short films by 3-time Emmy award-winning filmmaker Dutch Rall, and choreography by DNCB Artistic Director Emilie Skinner, this new work will explore the relationship and changeable nature of the perception of time, space and consciousness.
ABOUT THE FILM: The movie that inspired Terry Gilliam's 12 Monkeys, Chris Marker's La Jetée is a landmark of science-fiction film making, a 28-minute masterpiece told almost entirely in still frames. Set in a post-apocalyptic near-future, it tells the story of an unnamed man whose vivid childhood recollections make him the perfect guinea pig for an experiment in time travel. After a lengthy and nightmarish period of conditioning, he is sent into the past, where he falls in love with a woman whom he once saw on a pier. At the experiment's conclusion, he is visited by an advanced race, who offers him the opportunity to journey into their future world, but he instead requests that they send him permanently into the past, where he can remain with the woman of his dreams.

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