
The remarkable, intimidating glasses of Marker's chez-d'oeuvre La Jetée — which added so much nuance to the terror-ridden environment of the memory experiment — have been unearthed recently by the Cinémathèque française, and presented in a post by Hervé Pichard. The glasses were a gift to the Cinémathèque from the daughter of Pierre Joffroy. Joffroy played the chief torturer-experimenter, and, as a collector, was responsible for other props as well, such as the...