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'Confronting Ourselves': Ballard and Circular Time

By Simon Sellars • Dec 11th, 2008 •

Category: Andrei Tarkovsky, Chris Marker, Lead Story, WWII, YouTube, alternate worlds, features, film, inner space, memory, science fiction, temporality, time travel

Time-travel, according to Ballard, Marker, Tarkovsky and Godard. Some thoughts on memory retrieval and personal mythology. Ballard and Marker’s ‘fusion of science fiction, psychological fable and photomontage … in its unique way a series of potent images of the inner landscapes of time’.