As a complement to the colloque organized by Figura (UQAM), we present a series of films that all testify to a way of playing with time that can take the form of uchrony, retrofuturism or even parallel worlds. Cinema, by its very nature, has developed fictions that recompose, destructure and virtualize the time of action and narratives. Several films of the last decades, from Tarantino to Nolan, from Course Lola, course to Kieslowski testify to this fact.
Armed with a single word, Tenet, and fighting for the survival of the entire world, a protagonist travels into a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will take place beyond real time.
The trailer is in English original version, but the movie will be presentend with French subtitles.
Christopher Nolan
Christopher Nolan is a British-American filmmaker. After studying English literature at University College London, he made his film debut with Following and gained international recognition with his second film, Memento, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Transitioning from independent cinema to studio filmmaking with Insomnia, he found further critical and commercial success with The Dark Knight Trilogy, The Prestige and Inception, which received eight Academy Awards nominations, including Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay. This was followed by Interstellar, Dunkirk, Tenet, and Oppenheimer. For Oppenheimer, he won the Academy Award for Best Director and Best Picture. Infused with a metaphysical outlook, his work thematise epistemology, existentialism, ethics, the construction of time, and the malleable nature of memory and personal identity. They feature mathematically inspired images and concepts, unconventional narrative structures, practical special effects, experimental soundscapes, large-format film photography, and materialistic perspectives.
