Petite Ceinture

Petite Ceinture (1994)

January 1st, 19940h 1min

Documentary
45%

Overview

Part of Chris Marker’s Three Video Haikus series, Petite Ceinture is a brief visual meditation on Paris’s abandoned circular railway, filmed as an homage to the Lumière brothers.


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