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"But the more you watch Japanese television, the more you feel its watching you."

Sans Soleil
Sans Soleil
Sans Soleil is a 1983 French documentary film directed by Chris Marker. It is a meditation on the nature of human memory, showing the inability to recall the context and nuances of memory, and how, as a result, the perception of personal and global histories is affected. The title Sans Soleil is from the song cycle Sunless by Modest Mussorgsky, a brief fragment of which features in the film. Sans
"But the more you watch Japanese television, the more you feel its watching you."
"All women have a built-in grain of indestructibility."
"He wrote me: I will have spent my life trying to understand the function of remembering, which is not the opposite of forgetting, but rather its lining. We do not remember, we rewrite memory much as history is rewritten. How can one remember thirst?"
"Rumor has it that every third world leader coined the same phrase the morning after independence: “Now the real problems start.”"
"Frankly, have you ever heard of anything stupider than to say to people as they teach in film schools, not to look at the camera?"
"If the images of the present dont change, then change the images of the past."
"And when all the celebrations are over it remains only to pick up all the ornaments—all the accessories of the celebration—and by burning them, make a celebration."