Sans Soleil

Director: Chris Marker

1983 / 103min / DCP

Marker's voyage through memory, history, and video games is a free-flow of images shot largely in Japan (a cat temple, sacred phalluses, horror movies, sleeping subway riders, an animatronic JFK), with detours to Guinea-Bissau, Iceland, and, for an extended homage to Vertigo, San Francisco. An alien travelog? The world’s most profound home movie? There’s nothing quite like it in the history of cinema.

“Some of Sans Soleil’s trains carry dozing commuters, others travel to distant planets. The film itself moves like a ride through an ever-shifting landscape, shuttling between dreams and waking, here and there.” —Series curator Genevieve Yue

Distributor: Janus Films

Part of Trains: Local Routes