Chris Marker: La Jetée by Janet Harbord fiction Susan Crean's introduction to Opposite while living in the Susan Crean's introduction to Opposite Contraries and to each of the book's three sections provide an illuminating context in the fascinating story of Emily Carr A number of groups affiliated with the movement met formed Janet Harbord focuses in part on the film's treatment of time its shifts from a pre war past to a projected future a further future of the future (each with its own signature images and sound) arguing that in this way it addresses the nature of consciousness and the simultaneity of time frames that we inhabit Chris Marker's legendary "ciné roman" ("film novel") La Jetée is considered one of the greatest and most influential experimental films of all time