Sans Soleil is an idiosyncratic meditation on time and place, memory and image in our post-modern universe. An unnamed woman reads out past letters from a fictional (and unseen) cameraman, whose miscellaneous footage, along with archive clips and synthesised video sequences, forms an edited ‘report from another world’. Hopping between diverse locations in Africa, Japan, San Francisco, Guinea-Bissau, Iceland, and the Cape Verde islands, Sans Soleil is structured around opposites and juxtapositions: First and Third Worlds, happiness and sorrow, stillness and motion, present and past, fantasy and reality.

La Jetée is the inspiration for Terry Gilliam's Twelve Monkeys (1995) and is a remarkable and unique experimental short that consists solely of still frames, narration, music and sound effects as it relates an apocalyptic tale of memory and time-travel. A few years before WWIII, a young boy sees a woman standing at the end of the pier at France's Orly airport and becomes obsessed with the image of her face.