Frim Foreignness. Visual & Performing Arts Assignment.

Film Foreignness
Name Course Instructor Date
1 Two Men and a Wardrobe (Roman Polanski, Poland, 1958)
2 La Jetée (Chris Marker, France, 1962)
3 Borom Saret (Ousmane Sembene, Senegal, 1963)
4 Pas-de-deux (Norman McLaren, Canada 1968)
5 Doodlebug (Christopher Nolan, UK, 1997)
The film La Jetée is characterized by halting continuity and linear narrative. In Borom Saret, the main character is a cartman who is poor in Dakar, Senegal, during the post-colonial period. Pas-de-deux focuses on a dance duet and their doomed love. The ballet dance film appeals to the senses as the director cerates personalities that complement each other. The films are mostly character-based, unlike the US, where films are plot-based, and the films are generally narratives that emphasize memory.
The La Jetée story non-linear and is narrated focusing on the present, past, and the future as well as death and destiny where there is time travel for a man who has survived a nuclear WWIII and now lives in Paris, which is destroyed. In Borom Saret, viewers identify with the character based on his experiences ...