Nostalgia for the Future

Guided by the evocative narration of Charlotte Rampling, Nostalgia for the Future is a descent into the labyrinthine world of Chris Marker, the “best-known author of unknown films” who spent a lifetime concealing himself behind a veil of pseudonyms and images of cats. Moving through a constellation of personal documents and film fragments, an archivist attempts to decode the man through the material traces he left behind. By repurposing and recontextualizing Marker’s own body of work, the film treats his images as “time machines,” transforming the archive into a living, breathing landscape. Nostalgia for the future is a challenging inquiry into memory, identity, and the shadows that our past representations cast upon the future.

Selected for Cannes Classics 2026.