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Director: Chris Marker

1997 / 106min / Digital

Marker’s brilliant, beguiling pseudo-documentary centers on a woman (Catherine Belkhodja) working on a video game based on the Battle of Okinawa in World War II, simultaneously troubled by the memory of lover who disappeared while doing research for the game and by the weight of the historical tragedy that his research uncovered. Always an eager early adopter of new technologies, New Wave fellow traveler Marker’s film does intellectual heavy-lifting while staying breezily conversant in the language of early digital culture.

Introduced by actress Catherine Belkhodja on Tuesday, May 21st