城市的十五个片刻

Jem Cohen’s newest film is a personal, essayistic documentary in 15 chapters. The director composes images, sound and music with remarkable intensity, combining them into a hypnotic foray through the metropolises of our world: New York, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Istanbul, Porto and a city intended to remain unknown. Time passes and stands still at the same time. The camera is like a magnet for attracting and capturing the ephemeral: Flickering lights in windows, bunting and plastic bags fluttering in the wind. Snapshots of places both popular and unknown and of people, striking observations of everyday life, a tender gauging of reality, snippets of voiceovers in passing. It is life itself that the director shows us. Jem Cohen is at once a flaneur and a street smart worker, with his film an archive of his steps – a storeroom replete with dreamlike memories, including ones of Chris Marker’s Chats perchés. Cats of all shapes and sizes appear in the frame again and again. Counting is like taking a Sunday walk through spatial and temporal interstices, as touching as it is magical. berlinale 2015

ephemeral/snapshots/snippetsTo record those intoxicating flash of Sunday wanderings “In this layman’s double for prayer that we call Memory.”

去年在纽约上了他的小课程，就浅显的了解，他对纪录片的品味很好，节奏掌握得也好，但counting不算好。可能因为长了点？其他很多短视频都很精彩。

不知道导演是想模仿Marker但水平不够，还是想颠覆Marker但水平不够。

希望还能遇到放映! 只看过数字版的片段琐碎而美好的片段

光是纽约他就拍了多少部片子了怎么也拍不够总又能找到新颖的吸引他的地方。是真爱。把他和Marker拿来比较不太妥当。他只是以自己的方式在纪念好友吧。

Chris Marker去世之后，Jem Cohen作为他的朋友、仰慕者，构思了这样一部相似的“走世界，去记录”的致敬纪录片。有些地方的确很灵，尤其纽约的部分。他今天还念了Marker若干年前发给他的邮件，唉，斯人已去

有太多人都想臨摹Chris Marker的詩意、他的靈光、他散文的筆觸，但都只證明了一件事就是Marker是無法被取代的。