This celebrated short work by French film-essayist and poet Chris Marker (Sans Soleil) is an exploration ofemotions in the scientific (and post-scientific) age, dealing with the depths of nostalgia associated withmemory, time, and time-travel. Constructed from still photographs and frozen shots, La Jet? is set inpostwar-post WW III-Paris. There, an underground band of survivors become despots in their attempt toreach the future as a way out of the radioactive present. Marker's hero is the helpless astronauton thesevoyages through time. His vivid memory of a childhood image enables him, after much suffering, to journeyback in time instead of forward, for a brief, perfectly ordinary but glorious love affair with a woman hehad seen before the holocaust. The film's one flicker of movement becomes a sensuous, joyous burst, beforethe man is called back by his tormentors, eventually to become witness to his own death as past and futuremerge.