All language subtitles for Chris Marker - chats perch_(2004)

Perched cats

You have a message waiting

And all this under the gaze of a cat

A CAT?

September's bagpipes still ring in the air

Thus someone of the night, risked their neck

To float a smile upon the city.

there were cats delegated to the reception of travelers

A route was taking shape

with the pausing of memory

A mysterious tagueur draws cats everywhere

An army of yellow cats invades the city walls

Hunting season for the cats is declared open

at eye level

in the uniform of the earth

in its niche like an owl

but the enemy wakes

does this act of obscurantism remind you of another?

you got it

upon the soundtrack of the M�tro, i journey the city

with the wanted cats

Bol�ro, the cat of the Strasbourg Saint-Denis, and his human

A pigeon changes into a man

Whilst i'm following the course of the cats

an election campaign is announced

"Certain proposals of Lionel Jospin appear to be part of a drift to the right"

"the MEDEF has accomplices in the governmental left"

Jospin will govern as a loyal guarantor of the big corporates' interests.

"To imply that Jospin might not get to into the 2nd turn, is to take the French for imbeciles"

Alarm on Orteaux Street

Caroline the cat cannot get down

The firemen give up

A young hero will save her

April 21st, catastrophe

Bol�ro the cat caught his leg in the escalator

And as misfortune never arrives alone

May First

How many May Firsts in his memory?

A scoop: Le Pen shat on in Esperanto

that is understood very well, in Esperanto

Good, the fascist legions are not out our door

And Le Pen is a dictator only for his entourage

instead it is a whole generation once called apolitical who come out to demonstrate

And Le Pen did not surprise again at the second turn

Thus the Cat chooses to make it's return

Does it have political ambitions?

Confederation of Humanistic and Anarchistic Workers

Or was it satisfied simply maintaining its ever present smile

And besides this smile, from where did it come?

Genealogy of the cat

The Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland, of course

Also Miyazaki, mangas, Japanese advertisings

A file from 2000, when the author sought himself

But when delving deep into the history of Art one makes surprising discoveries

Let us listen to an expert

Thus one could follow the trail of the Cat through the ages

Since the Chauvet cave until Constructivism

Metamorphoses of the Cat

The Cat advertises on the m�tro

The Cat hijacks successfull films

The Fabulous Foal of Am�lie Destiny

The Cat is listed on the Stock Exchange

The Post office issues stamps with the effigy of the Cat

The Cat does one of the celebrity magazines

On the Internet, the Cat squats on official sites

Because meanwhile one of us was concocting a war

17th of March - G.W.Bush "gives 48 hours" for Saddam Hussein to leave Iraq

he also compares him with Hitler

One imagines Churchill giving Hitler 48 hours to leave Germany

And the gassing of the kurds, who was that?

The Kurds. Always between two enemies.

19th of March, Bush announces the start of war

Tony Blair: "Iraq has chemical and biological weapons

which could be activated within 45 minutes "

The UN inspectors have not found any trace of these weapons

20th of March, the bombardment of Baghdad

What one representative of the people thinks is clever to tell to Americans

A landslide to another enemy of principle

- Hello Mister. You filming us?
- No, nothing to see... (it is almost true)

Since the success of the second turn, one wonders when the Cat will express itself

so I go from demonstration to demonstration with a question:

Where are the Cats?

Where are the...

But one investigates in vain

there are no traces of weapons of mass destruction

A journalist from skynews posses the good question

UNESCO had warned about the potential threat of the museums in Iraq being plundered

11th of April, the archaeological museum of Baghdad is plundered

If one day I had the opportunity to plunder the Louvre

I know exactly what I would take

A vist to the museum of the streets

no matter how you age, there will always be young girls

We find ourselves back at the begining.

the square of Beaubourg, with its questionable trophy

What has become of the Cat?

Since its triumph at the big demonstration

it rests or flies away

but its fame does not stop growing

It is spotted in all kinds of places

With the confusions that an ill-considered use of the word "chat" creates on the Web

But the Parisian pavement does not seem to interest him any more

So Long!

"is Raffarin screwed"?

We had left M.Raffarin in the intoxication of the victory of May 5, 2002

What he had said this evening

May 25th 2003, one year later

it was initially �Johnson, assassin, release vietnam�

then later it was �it is only the beginning let us carry on the fight�

The slogans pass through time

The Strike

to put it bluntly, the Popular Front

embodied through the Work Force

1st of June

A giant counter to point out the reality of the number of victims of AIDS.

At this time the masses assembled to contemplate eleven multi-millionaires kicking at a ball

And the French team?

Portraits with Stalinist dimensions

and not a single goal scored

dead on the street

With the public announcement of this years list

A long soap opera full of ups and downs

The casual viewers of the show

against the flow of Time (continuation)

To destroy Raffarin these servants of god unearthed a hit from the Forties

they said �Kommandantur� well

let us pass...

Such is the life of words

"Intermittent" was the word of the summer

Come autumn, it would be "scarf"

But the words "Falun" or "Tibet" did not interest anybody

Small error in the soundtrack. quickly repaired

The revenge of Raffarin

Finally they are for or against?

Let us seek the ideology

Ah, here it is

Strikers you make us shit

"I am product marketing"

The reform is necessary, we do not stop nor retreat !

Join us! commitment has a new name:

freedom I write your name

Eluard with the anti-strike? Odd

The national-liberal association, Freedom I write your name,
tries to become to the right-wing what ATTAC is to the left.
With the Sabine H�rold as Jos� Bov�.

2003. Bov�, modest che Guevara

It is the last time that I see him

L�on had always defended illegal immigrants

they are here

7th of April, 1999

a GISTI organized concert for illegal immigrants

chance finds me filming a young singer

Noir D�sir and Zebda unite their forces

Another cemetery

No surprise that the Cats abandon us

For some time, one does not see the Bol�ro cat on his steps

have they left us for good?

we were the cats of liberty. If you can not comprehend us, then you are on your own.

And then - a Sign

on the street corner a circle of cats to protect the slumbering neighborhood

We will need you

where we are going

An old legend goes that the duke Gediminas, creator of Vilnius,
dreamed a long time ago of a wolf howling on a hill.

a priest seems to have interpreted the dream as follows:

he must build a city that would be heard of throughout the entire world,

like one could hear the wolf howl.

This film is dedicated to Mr. Cat and to all those, like him, who create a new culture