Hiroshima mon amour is a film which depends on division and merger. In Hiroshima mon amour, the history of Hiroshima is embedded within the first traumatic and erotic images of the film. Hiroshima mon amour was a co-funded French and Japanese production, filmed on location in Hiroshima and Nevers, and in studios in Tokyo and Paris between September and December 1958. The film's première was at the Cannes festival in May 1959. Hiroshima mon amour, Alain Resnais's first feature film, originated in a commission to the director from the producers of Nuit et brouillard. Pierre-Louis Spadone specifically connects Michel de Certeau's image of walking through the city with Resnais's tracking shots. Particularly relevant to Hiroshima mon amour are possible links between the affect and sensation of the urban encounter for Certeau and for Resnais.