Name: If I Had Four Dromedaries
Director: Chris Marker
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1966-01-01
Duration: 49 min
Cast: Pierre Vaneck, Nicolas Youmatoff, Catherine Le Couey

If I Had Four Dromedaries (1966)

French 49m

About If I Had Four Dromedaries Movie

Released in 1966, If I Had Four Dromedaries is a Documentary Movie in French. Direction is by Chris Marker. Key performances come from Pierre Vaneck, Nicolas Youmatoff, Catherine Le Couey. Composed entirely of still photographs shot by Marker himself over the course of his restless travel through twenty-six countries, If I Had Four Dromedaries stages a probing, at times agitated, search for the meanings of the photographic image, in the form of an extended voiceover conversation and debate between the "amateur photographer" credited with the images and two of his colleagues. Anticipating later writings by Roland Barthes and Susan Sontag (who professed her admiration for the film) If I Had Four Dromedaries reveals Marker's instinctual understanding of the secret rapport between still and moving image.

Movie Details

Release Date01 Jan 1966

LanguageFrench

Runtime49m

StatusReleased

DirectorChris Marker

GenreDocumentary

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