W parku sekwoi. Hitchcock/Marker/Godard
In a Sequoia Park: Hitchcock/Marker/Godard

Summary/Abstract: The text is a reflection on the relationship between the filmmakers mentioned in the title: Hitchcock, Marker, and Godard. The main idea of the article is to see the significant influence exerted by the British director on the French artists, which is manifested in the proposed approach primarily in the impact of Vertigo (1958) on Marker’s La Jetée (1962), Sans Soleil (1983), and Immemory (1997), as well as on Godard’s Nouvelle vague (1990) and Histoire(s) du cinéma (1988-1998). It is worth noting that each of the French directors uses the same Hitchcock’s film in a slightly different range. Both emphasize the universality of the story of memory/forgetfulness and appreciate the craftsmanship of the father of the thriller – an excellent stylist who was sensitive to the image. Each of them, however, created the figure of Hitchcock in their works in a different way. Marker particularly emphasized the ability to manipulate time and space, the perfection of the almost ascetic form contained in Hitchcock’s simple images. Godard, in turn, relied on Hitchcock as a master of cinema, successor to great painters, who exerted great influence on the audience thanks to his ability to tell stories by means of film images.

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