%0 Journal Article
%T The Imaginary in the Documentary Image: Chris Marker¡¯s Level Five
%A Christa Bl¨¹mlinger
%J Image and Narrative : Online Magazine of the Visual Narrative
%D 2010
%I Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
%X (E): This approach of Level Five by Chris Marker aims to grasp the theoretical status of "found" words and images, which are integrated by the filmmaker into a "semi-documentary" research, within a setting that is linked to the new media. Rather than considering them as pure documents, Marker is interested in their imaginary and discursive dimension. He integrates them into fragmentary writing that one could compare to modern forms of litterature and historiography. Thus, the word "Okinawa" is the starting point of the research of a name, a discourse, an iconography and a myth. In the film, the discourse on the deaths refers to rituals of remembrance and repression ; the images take the corresponding form of this labour: repetition and stoppage. For Marker the term  archeology  takes its foucauldian dimension, in the sense that it considers facts of discourse (and of images) not as documents, but rather as monuments.  (F): Cette approche de Level Five de Chris Marker voudrait saisir le statut th¨¦orique des mots et des images "trouv¨¦es" que le cin¨¦aste int¨¨gre dans une recherche "semi-documentaire", ¨¤ l'int¨¦rieur d'un dispositif li¨¦ aux nouveaux m¨¦dias. Plut t que de les consid¨¦rer comme purs documents, Marker s'int¨¦resse ¨¤ leur dimension imaginaire et discursive. Il les int¨¨gre dans une ¨¦criture fragmentaire comparable aux formes modernes de litt¨¦rature et d'historiographie. Ainsi le mot "Okinawa" est-il ¨¤ l'origine d'une recherche de nom, de discours, d'iconographie et de mythe. Dans le film, le discours sur les morts se r¨¦f¨¨re aux rituels du souvenir et du refoulement ; dans l'analyse du film, les images prennent la forme correspondante de ce travail : la r¨¦p¨¦tition et l'arr¨ºt. Chez Marker, la notion d'arch¨¦ologie prend sa dimension foucaldienne, dans la mesure o¨´ il consid¨¨re les faits de discours (et d'images) non point comme documents, mais comme monuments.
%K archive
%K documentary
%K essay
%K archeology of the gaze
%K historicity of images
%K archival art film
%K migration of images
%U http://www.imageandnarrative.be/index.php/imagenarrative/article/view/51