Sans Memory

I recently picked up the Criterion release of Chris Marker's Sans Soleil. I've seen the movie a few times and am always impressed by its depth. Anyway, while watching it the other day I realized that the sequence in the film of the homeless man directing traffic in Tokyo isn't a personal memory of mine but a part of this movie.

See, I'd somehow mixed that sequence up in my mind with my own experiences in Tokyo. I did once see a homeless man in Shibuya standing perilously close to the edge of the sidewalk, but I guess I took Marker's more interesting image and replaced my own with it.

Of course, this is all the more poignant because Sans Soleil is largely about memory...