Since Sontag mentions the filmmaker Chris Marker, I thought that this would be a good excuse to share his fantastic work. I'm most familiar with his film Sans Soleil--a fascinating rumination about the relationship between images and memory that takes the form of a fictional travelogue. The question of how images are strung together to form a narrative (especially how our images of other cultures help us formulate larger cultural narratives) is central to this film. Marker particularly plays with the dissonance between what is seen (what we construct) and what really is ("reality"--which may not be accessible, especially across cultures). Enjoy:
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