Chris Marker’s groundbreaking post-apocalyptic time-travel film La Jetée was released nearly 60 years ago and still continues to inspire artist from all different fields.

The most common example is Terry Gilliam’s Hollywood adaptation Twelve Monkeys, but also artists like David Bowie (who paid homage in his music video Jump They Say) and cyberspace- and cyberpunk-defining writer William Gibson, were highly influenced by La Jetée.

Marker himself was inspired by Hitchcock’s Vertigo and The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares, both dealing with time, memory and consciousness.

What makes La Jetée so influential is not only its spiraling time travel narrative, but also its composition of still photographic images that builds a film by breaking its most basic rule – the moving image.