If I Had Four Dromedaries
1966 · 49 MIN · IMDB 7.8 · 225 VOTES · DIR. Chris Marker
Overview
Composed entirely of still photographs shot by Marker himself over the course of his restless travel through twenty-six countries, If I Had Four Dromedaries stages a probing, at times agitated, search for the meanings of the photographic image, in the form of an extended voiceover conversation and debate between the "amateur photographer" credited with the images and two of his colleagues. Anticipating later writings by Roland Barthes and Susan Sontag (who professed her admiration for the film) If I Had Four Dromedaries reveals Marker's instinctual understanding of the secret rapport between still and moving image.
Dialogue Timeline — 672 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:02 Subject: An amateur photographer and two of his friends
00:02:04 if you participate in something, it's in the life and death of their images.
00:03:52 and over Prague, over Tehran, and over Berlin.
00:06:17 Lottery in Cuba
00:07:58 because no dog has ever flown across the Atlantic.
00:10:14 was already contained in that summer.
00:12:37 as there is a life-line.
00:14:25 it's a truer movement toward art than hanging a reproduction of a Van Gough
00:16:13 we find ourselves there, we, the sons of immigrants.
00:18:12 Now, I love Moscow...
00:20:27 It's on Mount Athos in Greece.
00:22:04 on the contrary...
00:24:02 We live in the Castle.
00:26:33 -The elephant of Moscow lives in a marvellous place.
00:29:08 There are no more United Children
00:30:45 Thus, I no longer asked anything
00:32:43 some images, magazines, and tons of brochures--but not one letter.
00:34:22 For the enemy hasn't changed.
00:36:39 something eternally new
00:37:57 of humanity doesn't dare to imagine, even in their wildest dreams.
00:40:01 Maiakovski's.
00:41:50 Now he travels about the popular democracies
00:46:31 "das Leben ist langweilig"
01:09:05 in Shanghai, which never arrived.
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed672
Dialogue density13.7 lines / min
First line00:00:02
Final line01:09:05
Production Record
DirectorChris Marker
LanguageFrench
IMDb votes225