Chris Marker

Chris Marker (France)

Chris Marker was born Christian François Bouche-Villeneuve, in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, July 29, 1921. In World War II he joined the Maquis (FTP). After the war he began to write and make films. He traveled to many socialist countries and documented what he saw in films and books. Les statues meurent aussi (1953) which he codirected with Alain Resnais was one of the first anticolonial films. He became known internationally for the short film La Jetée (1962). It tells of a post-nuclear war experiment in time travel by using a series of filmed photographs developed as a photomontage of varying pace with limited narration and sound effects. This film was the inspiration for Mamoru Oshii's debut live action feature The Red Spectacles (1987) (later for Avalon) and also inspired Terry Gilliam's Twelve Monkeys (1995).
In 1982 Marker finished Sans Soleil, stretching the limits of what could be called a documentary. It is an essay, a montage, mixing pieces of documentary with fiction and philosophical comments, creating an atmosphere of dream and science fiction. The main themes are Japan, Africa, (the erasing of) memory and travel. A sequence in the middle of the film takes place in San Francisco, and heavily references Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo.
Beginning with Sans Soleil he developed a deep interest in digital technology, which led to his film Level 5 (1996) and Immemory (1998, 2008), an interactive multimedia CD-ROM, produced for the Centre Pompidou (French language version) and from Exact Change (English version). Marker created a 19 minute multimedia piece in 2005 for The Museum of Modern Art in New York titled Owls at Noon Prelude: The Hollow Men which was influenced by T. S. Eliot's poem.

Filmography

  • Stopover In Dubai
    2011
  • Leila Attacks
    2006
  • Chats perchés / The Case of the Grinning Cat
    2004
  • Le Souvenir d'un avenir
    2001
  • Cinéma de notre temps: une journée d'Andrei Arsenevitch
    2000
  • Level Five
    1997
  • Le Tombeau d'Alexandre
    1993
  • Le Facteur sonne toujours cheval
    1992
  • Berliner Ballade
    1990
  • L'Héritage de la chouette
    1989
  • Mémoires pour Simone
    1986
  • A.K.
    1985
  • From Chris to Christo
    1985
  • 2084
    1984
  • Sans soleil / Sunless
    1983
  • Junkopia
    1981
  • Le Fond de l'air est rouge
    1977
  • La Solitude du chanteur de fond
    1974
  • L'Ambassade
    1973
  • Vive la baleine
    1972
  • On vous parle de Prague: le deuxième procès d'Artur London
    1971
  • La Bataille des dix millions
    1971
  • Le Train en marche
    1971
  • Carlos Marighela
    1970
  • Les Mots ont un sens
    1970
  • Jour de tournage
    1969
  • On vous parle du Brésil
    1969
  • À bientôt, j'espère
    1968
  • La Sixième face du pentagone – together with François Reichenbach
    1968
  • Loin du Vietnam
    1967
  • Rhodiacéta
    1967
  • Si j'avais quatre dromadaires
    1966
  • Le Mystère Koumiko
    1965
  • Le Joli mai
    1963
  • La Jetée / The Pier
    1962
  • ¡Cuba Sí!
    1961
  • Description d'un combat
    1960
  • Les Astronautes - together with Walerian Borowczyk
    1959
  • Lettre de Sibérie
    1957
  • Dimanche à Pekin
    1956
  • Les Statues meurent aussi – together with Alainem Resnais
    1953
  • Olympia 52
    1952

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