Crossing of Time: Marker and Mizoguchi's Ghosts

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TitleCruce de Tiempos: Los Fantasmas de Kenji Mizoguchi & Chris Marker
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Release dateJun 9, 2018
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DirectorLuis Franze Linhart , Diego Cepeda
Production countryDominican Republic
Run time3 min.

This work arises from the random encounter of two titles having a tie in the 50th place on the Sight & Sound list in 2012, curiously enough, when considering a dialogue between these two films, we see how cinema can generate its own ghosts: in both films the dead and the living coexist; in La Jeteé thanks to time (insubordinate of movement) and in Ugetsu Monogatari thanks to movement (a panoramic view within a sequence shot, which refers to a deceptive narrative continuity). What would happen if we stripped both films of their construction?

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Jun 9, 2018

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