Remembrance of Things to Come A bientot j'espere

"A marvel! The most unforgettable film of any length you will see this year!"--Elvis Mitchell, New York Times on Remembrance of Things to Come

Composed entirely of still images (like his masterpiece, La jetee) Chris Marker's Remembrance of Things to Come is an astonishingly evocative portrait of the photographer Denise Bellon. Collaborating with Bellon's daughter Yannick, Marker's Remembrance of Things to Come focuses on the two decades between 1935 and 1955, capturing Bellon's extraordinary life and career. An intimate of the surrealists, she was a tireless documentarian of Paris streets, French art and cinema, WWII and the Spanish Civil War, paying witness to French colonialism no less than to Nazi death camps along the way. (Chris Marker and Yannick Bellon, 2001; 42 mins.)

Marker's newly restored A bientôt j'espere, which follows, is a pre-May 1968 account of a textile factory strike in Besancon, with extensive interviews of workers demanding an end to the degrading circumstances of their employment. (1967; 43 mins.)