Marker creates resonating spaces laden with meaning. Visually Marker has pulled off this cinematic tour de force with black and white still images. Marker has made a moving picture without any movement. In a work about time, his characters are frozen in cinematic time. There is though a different type of movement, other than natural, in La Jetee.
Cinematic movement is present.
The still frames are in effect animated. There are camera moves over images. Dissolves, cuts, and fades link the images. There are resonant compositions filled with gaze and longing. One shot in the film moves.