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30. Juli 2012 · In Memoriam: Chris Marker. July 30, 2012. Chris Marker died on July 29th. Read Richard Brody. Still from “La Jetée.”. The very subject of Chris Marker’s work is memory; his death...
- Nine Filmmakers on Chris Marker
- Jem Cohen
- Thom Andersen
- Chris Petit
- Sarah Turner
- Kodwo Eshun
- Patrick Keiller
- José Luis Guerín
- Agnès Varda
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US, Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind Whether he’s consciously an influence or not, anyone who’s ventured into that loosely defined terrain of the ‘essay documentary’ anytime within the past 55 years owes a debt to Chris Marker. As pivotal as the impact that Dziga Vertov had on Marker himself (“the only teacher,” Marker called him just a year ago), an axial connection to Marker can be discerned amidst the diverse trajectories of filmmakers like Patrick Keiller, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Adam Cur...
US, Museum Hours, Chain When I first saw Forough Farrokhzad’s astonishing (and only) film The House Is Black (1962) some time in the 1990s, I was hungry to share it with others, but at the time it was unavailable and seemed to me utterly mysterious. How could I never have even heard of this most singular work – a key missing monument in the unmappe...
US, Los Angeles Plays Itself Once, long ago – I can’t remember where or when – I had the good fortune to see A Valparaiso (1963), directed by Joris Ivens with a text by Chris Marker. It is still the best city film I’ve seen, and it has one line (about Valparaiso) I will always remember: “Its lie is the sun, its truth is the sea.” That line was some...
UK, Radio On, Content I saw La Jetée at the school film society in about 1965. It was one of those school film-society staples in the way Incident at Owl Creek was, and I remember being far more impressed by the Marker simply because of the radical thing of not using film and the moment of the blink, which was like the birth of cinema. I thought he...
UK, Perestroika The first Marker film I saw was La Jetée when I was an art student at Central Saint Martins in the 1980s. La Jetée is hugely experimental because it denies the basic modality of film. The essence of film is the moving image, and for me La Jetée works within the paradigm of experimental film because it counters certain fundamental co...
UK, Otolith I, II &III, The Radiant In the relentless heat of June 2007, The Otolith Group [Eshun and Anjalika Sagar] conceived an idea to represent a 13-episode television series neither of us had ever seen in the form of a 13-monitor installation. The series was The Owl’s Legacy, directed by Chris Marker, filmed in Tblisi, Athens, Paris, Berkeley...
UK, London, Robinson in Space I first saw La Jetée during the winter of 1968-9, I think at the Arts Lab in Drury Lane. Wherever it was, it wasn’t in a cinema, and I may not have gone there to see a film; it was in a late-night programme in which the films weren’t individually listed, so that it came as a complete surprise. I saw it a few more times...
Spain, In the City of Sylvia If the fiction feature film has its equivalent in the 19th-century novel, where are the equivalents of travel books, memoirs, archives, biographies, essays, poetry, epistles, activism…? Chris Marker, more than any other filmmaker, has broadened the horizons of his own medium. That is how I used to present him to my stud...
France, Cleo from 5 to 7, The Beaches of Agnès He first entered my life in 1954, as a voice. He used to telephone Resnais, who was editing my first film. His intelligence, toughness and tenderness have been one of my joys throughout our long friendship. All his friends had access to a little of him. He’d send them drawings and collages. But probabl...
The themes of time and memory would haunt Marker (as well as his colleague Alain Resnais) for the rest of his life, even extending to the medium of interactive CD art with his now classic ‘Immemory” CD. I urge you to read The Guardian obituary for the details of Marker’s fascinating life history.
Chris Marker (French: [maʁkɛʁ]; 29 July 1921 – 29 July 2012) was a French writer, photographer, documentary film director, multimedia artist and film essayist. His best known films are La Jetée (1962), A Grin Without a Cat (1977) and Sans Soleil (1983). Marker is usually associated with the Left Bank subset of the French New Wave that ...
2. Aug. 2012 · Chris Marker revolutionized cinema in 26 minutes with several hundred still images, one ghostly live-action shot, and a new approach to narrative and time.
Chris Marker war ein französischer Schriftsteller, Fotograf und Dokumentarfilmer sowie Drehbuchautor. Seine bekanntesten Filme sind der aus Fotos montierte Film Am Rande des Rollfelds und Sans Soleil – Unsichtbare Sonne.
30. Juli 2012 · Das Werk des Filmemachers Chris Marker ist riesig und hat andere Künstler inspiriert, die wir er wissen wollen, was es mit Blicken auf sich hat. 91 Jahre alt, ist Marker nun in Paris gestorben.
