Round 1: Tossup 19

This film fades to black in between shots showing a bedroom, a child’s face, birds flying, and graves. A sequence in this film abruptly cuts to a man in a turtleneck looking over the protagonist after several dissolves between shots of a woman sleeping that end with her smiling and blinking. (15[1])While underneath Chaillot, the protagonist lies on a hammock as a scientist experiments on him by putting (*) coverings on his eyes and injecting him with a syringe. Time travelers from the future offer this film’s protagonist the ability to escape his execution, but he chooses instead to see a woman again by returning to an incident from his childhood at Orly Airport. For 10 points, a man unknowingly witnesses his own death in what short film almost entirely composed of still images and directed by Chris Marker? ■END■

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