La Jetee is of interest to the digital cinema maker on a variety of levels. The film, twenty eight minutes in length, conceptually becomes a zone where Mapussant meets Asimov. In a near future, a nuclear holocost ravages the world. Underneath the ruins of Paris, desperate survivors experiment with time travel. Those with vivid dreams are the most desired candidates.
Subjects go mad unable to withstand the shock of time travel.
Our hero, a prisoner, has a particularly vivid memory of the past. His dreams are spied on. Selected for the next experiement, his mission is to make contact with the past and the future to aid the hapless victims of an impossible present. In the past he falls in love with a woman who appears to be as out of time as he is. Over the course of his visits they explore time in its many forms.