Help me identify this artsy time travely movie.

January 21, 2009 12:24 PM

I am looking for a movie I saw clips from back around 2000 or so. It is a movie about time travel. I think someone from the future is coming back to kill or kidnap a scientist. The distinct part is, the visual style. I remember it being still pictures with transitions between them, with the actors talking. Sometime like 1 picture ever 1-2 seconds.
posted by JonnyRotten to media & arts (8 comments total)

La Jetée! Twelve Monkeys was based on it.
posted by Greg Nog at 12:26 PM on January 21

Was it Chris Marker's La Jetee?
posted by Eldritch at 12:29 PM on January 21

Certainly sounds like La Jetée.
posted by Dr-Baa at 12:30 PM on January 21

No. The movie I saw was not out yet when I saw the trailer or clips.
The art style was still photographs (I believe digital was being pimped by the makers) strung together with transitions, with the actors speaking over them. It was different from La Jetée, in that each picture was very close to the last, and the transitions were basically like a morph, so it seemed to be more flowing.

The head bad guy *may* have been asian.
posted by JonnyRotten at 12:33 PM on January 21

ARGH.
I have searched for this for several years.
I post it to metafilter.
I finally find my own answer.
God dammit.
Missing Pages
posted by JonnyRotten at 12:37 PM on January 21

Apparently, the full movie is downloadable there.
Hooray for the answer. Boo! for the wasted question.
posted by JonnyRotten at 12:43 PM on January 21

Heh, was just coming in here to say "Lots of people are going to say Le Jetée, but it's Missing Pages." Here's the Mefi post where I heard about it.
posted by j.edwards at 12:44 PM on January 21

Man, I could swear I watched some footage from it way before 2006.
posted by JonnyRotten at 12:52 PM on January 21