What is an example of disjuntive editing in the 1962 film La Jetee?

I am just not sure what would be a good course screen example of disjunctive editing for this film. Can anyone help me out?

So basically “disjunctive editing” is editing that brings attention to itself and creates a disorienting effect. Jump cuts, spatial cuts that create weirdo tension, off beat axial cuts and what have you. Pretty much anything that makes you notice the editing and generally creates an atmosphere of some sort of tension.

At the most extreme… think of any video by Chris Cunningham.

A milder / less harsh / less Cunningham-esque use in a narrative film would be something / most anything by Godard / the French New Wave.

A more “mainstream” example from right off the top of my head would be a film like U-Turn by Oliver Stone.

Oh wait…. you meant this film in specific…

sorry, havent seen it sister.

If I remember correctly— implied camera movement crosscutting between perspectives ^
— spatial tension, subtle temporal jumps, rhythmic pattern.

Technically speaking the film is entirely disjunctive: pared down to individual frames, a narrative with only implied action— ‘photographs of action’.

That said, I think in the context of this film, this is the best example ^
She is asleep, motionless, an image caught in the mind’s eye: and then we see her open her eyes. For one beat we are taken out of the montage, and forced awake to confront the theme of memory: for one moment she moves- the subtlest of movements, a gaze back.

And then we are returned to the photographs, frozen points floating across time.

Thanks so much! This was very helpful!

De rien : )

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