Thought Projection through Time

Tag Area: Time Travel Trope
Short Film

La jetée

  • The pier
  • La Jetée
  • written and directed by Chris Marker
  • (at movie theaters, France, 16 February 1962) [Accessed at Youtube on 28 February 2022.]
In a world made uninhabitable by the Third World War, a prisoner is chosen as being the only person with vivid enough memories of the past to travel through time and return with salvation.

This 28-minute photo montage with about 1,200 words of narration has a nice seed of an idea, but I find it insulting to other talented filmmakers that Time magazine ranked this sketch of a film as #1 in their 2010 list of best time travel movies. —Michael Main
Tel était le but des expériences : projeter dans le Temps des émissaires, appeler le passé et l’avenit au secours du présent.
translate Such was the purpose of the experiments: to project emissaries into Time, to summon the Past and the Future to the aid of the Present.
A grid of 16 photos from Chris Marker
  • Science Fiction
  • Experimental
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

Dream Atlas

Eleanor, a dream scientist, is visited by her future self in a vivid dream —Michael Main
Right now, all that matters is that within a month of your waking from this encounter, you’ll be able to duplicate thought projection through short durations of dream-time.
A tilted view of a partially lit Saturn with the sun above and a green moon outside of the rings.
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel