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|birth_date = {{birth date|1921|7|29|mf=y}}
 
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|birth_place =  Neuilly-sur-Seine, Île-de-France, [[France]]
 
|birth_place =  Neuilly-sur-Seine, Île-de-France, [[France]]
 
|death_date = {{Death date and age|2012|7|29|1921|7|29|mf=y}}
 
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|death_place = [[Paris]], France
 
|death_place = [[Paris]], France
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Chris Marker 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), ''Sans Soleil'' (1983) and ''AK'' (1985), an essay film on the Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa. Marker is often associated with the Left Bank Cinema movement that occurred in the late 1950s and included such other filmmakers as Alain Resnais, Agnès Varda, Henri Colpi and Armand Gatti.
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'''Chris Marker''' (born Christian Hippolyte François Georges Bouche-Villeneuve) 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), ''Sans Soleil'' (1983) and ''AK'' (1985), an essay film on the Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa. Marker is often associated with the Left Bank Cinema movement that occurred in the late 1950s and included such other filmmakers as Alain Resnais, Agnès Varda, Henri Colpi and Armand Gatti.
  
 
His friend and sometime collaborator Alain Resnais has called him "the prototype of the twenty-first-century man." Film theorist Roy Armes has said of him: "Marker is unclassifiable because he is unique...The French Cinema has its dramatists and its poets, its technicians, and its autobiographers, but only has one true essayist: Chris Marker."
 
His friend and sometime collaborator Alain Resnais has called him "the prototype of the twenty-first-century man." Film theorist Roy Armes has said of him: "Marker is unclassifiable because he is unique...The French Cinema has its dramatists and its poets, its technicians, and its autobiographers, but only has one true essayist: Chris Marker."
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==Works==
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==Films==
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[[Image:Marker_Chris_Le_coeur_net.jpg|thumb|150px]]
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(directed films; in French unless noted otherwise)
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===The Forthright Spirit (Le cœur net)===
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Chris Marker's debut novel. The book received a Prix Onion in 1950.
 
  
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Originally published in French by Le Seuil, Paris, in 1949. It was translated to English by Robert Kee and Terence Kilmartin and published by Allan Wingate, London, in 1951.
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* ''[[The Owl's Legacy|L'Héritage de la chouette]]'' [The Owl's Legacy], 1989, 13 episodes x 26 min. English, and French, Georgian, Greek.
  
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"His friend Alain Resnais recalls that Marker favored a 1951 English translation of his novel because it had so little resemblance to the original." [http://books.google.com/books?id=2Mb-TJr4YAoC&pg=PA4 (source)]
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; Feature-length films
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* ''Olympia 52'', 1952.
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* ''Lettre de Sibérie'' [Letter From Siberia], 1957.
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* ''Le Joli mai'', with Pierre Lhomme, 1962.
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* ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m12TB0cICec Cinétracts]'', with Jean-Luc Godard and Alain Resnais, silent, 1968.
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* ''La bataille des dix millions'', 1970.
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* ''Le train en marche'', 1971.
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* ''La Solitude du chanteur de fond'', 1974.
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* ''L'Ambassade'', 1975.
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* ''[http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL19EAABC66CEC0272 Le fond de l’air est rouge]'' [Grin Without a Cat], 1977. (link to a version with EN audio & EN subs), [http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL51F021293DBD0F87 Part 2]
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* ''Sans soleil'', 1982.
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* ''A.K'', 1984.
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* ''[[#The_Owl.27s_Legacy_.28L.27H.C3.A9ritage_de_la_chouette.29|L'Héritage de la chouette]]'', 1989.
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* ''Le tombeau d’Alexandre'', 1992. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNtmtrdJZmY]
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* ''Level five'', 1996.
  
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[[Media:Marker_Chris_The_Forthright_Spirit.pdf|Download the English edition in PDF]].
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; Short films
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* ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzFeuiZKHcg Les Statues meurent aussi]'' [Statues Also Die], with Alain Resnais, 1953, 30 min. (link to a version with EN subs)
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* ''Dimanche à Pékin'', 1956.
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* ''Description d’un combat'', 1960.
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* ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QCZKpNgFmI Cuba si!]'', 1961.
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* ''La Jetée'', 1962.
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* ''Le Mystère Koumiko'', 1965.
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* ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN91VF1Guyk Si j'avais 4 dromadaires]'', 1966, 49 min.
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* ''A bientôt, j’espère'', with Mario Marret, 1967.
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* ''La Sixième face du pentagone'', with François Reichenbach, 1968.
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* ''Le Deuxième procès d’Artur London'', 1969.
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* ''Jour de tournage'', 1969.
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* ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oL5ovnt-A4 On vous parle du Brésil]'', 1969.
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* ''Carlos Marighela'', 1970.
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* ''Les Mots ont un sens'', 1970.
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* ''Vive la baleine'', with Mario Ruspoli, 1972.
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* ''On vous parle du Chili'', 1973.
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* ''Puisqu’on vous dit que c’est possible'', 1973.
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* ''[http://ubu.com/film/marker_junkopia.html Junkopia]'', with John Chapman and Frank Simeone, 1981.
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* ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGkSAe0SzIg 2084]'', 1984. (link to a version with EN subs)
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* ''Une journée d’Andrei Arsenevitch'', 1999.
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* ''Le Souvenir d'un avenir'' [Remembrance of Things to Come], with Yannick Bellon, 2001, 42 min.  [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lc9Wz7kySUA (with ES subs)]
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* ''Chats perchés'', 2004.
  
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===The Owl's Legacy (L'Héritage de la chouette)===
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* ''[https://ubu.com/film/kast_brulure.html La brûlure de mille soleils]'', 1965. Directed by Pierre Kast, edited by Marker.
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* ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNY-l7FuSnA On vous parle de Paris - Maspero, les mots ont un sens]'', 1970. François Maspero interviewed by Marker.
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1989, France/Greece, col., Beta sp, Television Mini-Series, 13 episodes x 26'.
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[[Image:Marker_Chris_Commentaires_1-2.jpg|thumb|350px|''Commentaires 1-2''. [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=2685 Log].]]
  
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Written by Jean Claude-Carrière and Chris Marker, commissioned by S.E.P.T. and financed by the Onassis Foundation ''The Owl's Legacy'' was never broadcasted, probably not having matched the Foundation's expectations. Searching for the western cultural foundations in the ancient Greece, the 13 episodes of this TV mini-series explore the lost resonances of thirteen words, ideas that function today in a problematic relation both with their linguistic root as well as in their customary role and exercise. [http://aestheticsandpolitics.posterous.com/lheritage-de-la-chouette-6122011-9am-room-201 (source of the text)]  
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==Writings, publications==
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* ''[http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=4BB6D2BD7C6D6D6B6E9FF849DF870403 Le cœur net]'', Paris: Seuil, 1949, [http://aaaaarg.fail/thing/596f4dec9ff37c0dbf002440 ARG]. Novel. {{fr}}
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** ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=7040 The Forthright Spirit]'', trans. Robert Kee and Terence Kilmartin, London: Allan Wingate, 1951, 191 pp. {{en}}
  
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* ''Coréennes'', Paris: Seuil, 1959. {{fr}}
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** ''Coréennes'', Seoul: Noonbit, 2008. {{ko}}
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** ''[[Media:Marker Chris Coreennes 2009.pdf|Coréennes]]'', trans. Brian Holmes, Columbus, OH: Wexner Center for the Arts, 2009, 31 pp, [https://chrismarker.org/chris-marker/coreennes-by-chris-marker-english-text/ HTML]. {{en}}
  
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====Episode 1: ''Symposium'', or Accepted Ideas====
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* ''[[Media:Marker_Chris_Commentaires_1.pdf|Commentaires 1]]'', Paris: Seuil, 1961. Transcripts of six films by Marker: ''Les statues meurent aussi'' (1953), ''Dimanche à Pékin'' (1955), ''Lettre de Sibérie'' (1957), ''L'Amérique rêvée'' (1959), ''Description d'un combat'' (1960) and ''Cuba Si!'' (1961). {{fr}}
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====Episode 2: ''Olympics'', or Imaginary Greece====
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* ''[[Media:Marker_Chris_Commentaires_2.pdf|Commentaires 2]]'', Paris: Seuil, 1967. Transcripts of three films by Marker: ''Le mystère Koumiko'' (1965), ''Soy Mexico'' [an unfilmed project] (1965), and ''Si j’avais quatre dromedaires'' (1966). {{fr}}
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====Episode 3: ''Democracy'', or the City of Dreams====
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* ''[[Media:Marker_Chris_Le_Depays_1982.pdf|Le Dépays]]'', Paris: Herscher, 1982, [71] pp, [https://chrismarker.org/chris-marker/le-depays/ HTML]. [https://chrismarker.org/chris-marker/le-depays-chris-marker/] {{fr}}
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====Episode 4: ''Nostalgia'', or the Impossible Return====
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* ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=18363 Silent Movie]'', ed. Ann Bremner, Columbus, OH: Wexner Center for the Arts/Ohio State University, 1995, 40 pp. Catalogue for the installation. {{en}}
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====Episode 5: ''Amnesia'', or History on the March====
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==Documentary films==
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* ''[https://vimeo.com/670793808 The Invention of Chris Marker]'', dir. Matan Tal, 2020, 14 min. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KyhI1J9BZg]
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* ''Ten Lives of a Cat: A Film About Chris Marker'', 2023. [https://www.mjot.org/film/ten-lives-of-a-cat]
  
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==Literature==
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* Jean-Louis Schefer, [http://chrismarker.org/chris-marker-2/jean-louis-schefer-on-la-jete/ "On ''La Jetée''"] [1991], trans. Paul Smith, in Schefer, ''The Enigmatic Body: Essays on the Arts'', ed. & trans. Paul Smith, Cambridge University Press, 1995. {{en}}
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* Geneviève Daphne Van Cauwenberge, [[Media:Van_Cauwenberge_Genevieve_Daphne_PhD_1992_Chris_Marker_and_Documentary_Filmmaking_1962-1982.pdf|''Chris Marker and Documentary Filmmaking: 1962-1982'']], New York University, 1992. PhD Dissertation. {{en}}
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* ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=6514 Chris Marker: Around the World with Chris Marker: Lost Horizons / Time Regained]'', ''Film Comment'', May-June and July-August 2003. Two-part feature on Marker. {{en}}
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====Episode 7: ''Logomachy'', or the Dialect of the Tribe====
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* Catherine Lupton, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=1017 Chris Marker: Memories of the Future]'', Reaktion Books, 2005. {{en}}
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* Nora M. Alter, ''[https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/64e4e5629ff37c4aaf2e81c4 Chris Marker]'', University of Illinois Press, 2006, 232 pp. [https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p073168 Publisher]. {{en}}
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* ''DO revue pro dokumentarni film'' 5: "Chris Marker", Prague, 2007. {{cz}}
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* ''[http://ojs.arts.kuleuven.be/index.php/imagenarrative/issue/view/3 Image & Narrative 10:3 (2009): Chris Marker (I)]'', Leuven.  {{fr}}/{{en}}
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====Episode 8: ''Music'', or Inner Space====
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* ''[http://ojs.arts.kuleuven.be/index.php/imagenarrative/issue/view/4 Image & Narrative 11:1 (2010): Chris Marker (II)]'', Leuven. {{en}}
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* François Lecointe, [http://sci-hub.st/10.1080/09528822.2011.545616 "The Elephants at the End of the World: Chris Marker and Third Cinema"], ''Third Text'' 25:108, Jan 2011, pp 93-104. {{en}}
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* François Lecointe, [http://www.esprit.presse.fr/news/frontpage/news.php?code=232 "Tombeau pour Chris Marker"], ''Esprit'', 18 Oct 2012. {{fr}}
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* David Cenek, ''Chris Marker'', Prague: JSAF & NAMU, 2012, 424 pp. {{cz}}
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====Episode 9: ''Cosmogony'', or the Ways of the World====
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* Catherine Lupton, Thom Andersen, Chris Petit, Jem Cohen, John Gianvito, Patrick Keiller, Sarah Turner, Kodwo Eshun, José Luis Guerín, Agnès Varda, [http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/features/owls-legacy-memory-chris-marker "The Owl’s Legacy: In Memory of Chris Marker"], ''Sight & Sound'', Oct 2012. {{en}}
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* ''Chris Marker: inmemoria'', eds. Maria Fortes and Lorena Gómez Mostajo, México, D.F.: Ambulante, 2013, 255+40 pp. {{es}}
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* ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=17665 La zona Marker]'', eds. Ricardo Greene and Iván Pinto, Santiago de Chile: FIDOCS, 2013, 177 pp. {{es}}
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* Maroussia Vossen, ''Chris Marker: le livre impossible'', Tripode, 2016, 128 pp. Memoir. [https://le-tripode.net/livre/maroussia-vossen/chris-marker-le-livre-impossible Publisher]. [https://chrismarker.org/chris-marker-le-livre-impossible-maroussia-vossen/] {{fr}}
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** ''[https://chrismarker.org/chris-marker-the-impossible-book-by-maroussia-vossen/ Chris Marker: The Impossible Book]'', trans. Andrew Castillo, 2020. {{en}}
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====Episode 11: ''Misogyny'', or the Snares of Desire====
 
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====Episode 12: ''Tragedy'', or the Illusion of Death====
 
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====Episode 13: ''Philosophy'', or the Triumph of the Owl====
 
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Eleni Karaindrou (solos/Ian Garbarek/Nana Vasconcelos), Christelle Kosc/UPIC, Krzystof Penderecki, Herbert Windt, Michel Krasna [C.M.], J.s. Bach, Iannis Xenakis/UPIC, François-Bernard Mâche/UPIC, Christelle Kosc/UPIC, Pierre Bernard/UPIC, Leos Janacek, Giovanni Fusco, Ludwig van Beethoven.
 
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UPIC: Alain Desprès, Agnès Frontisi, Laurence Braunberger, Thierry Kimmel, Ramuntcho Matta
 
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Excerpts: ''O Hélios O Héliatora'' by Angélique Ionatos (poem by Odysseus Elytis)
 
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DFR: Florence Malraux, Valérie de Ricquebourg, Carline Bouilhet, Diana Garcia, Laurence Brauberger, Françoise Widhoff
 
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''Paris 1900'' (Nicole Védrès), ''Olympia'' (L[eni] Riefenstahl), ''On vous parle de Grece'' (Slon), ''L'Odisse A'' (Bertolini/Padovan/Liguoro), ''America America'' (Elia Kazan), ''Skinoussa'' (Jean Baronnet), ''Tragédie Egéenne'' (Basil Maros), ''Avant-poste'' (David Niles), ''Rythmetic - Ligens horizontales'' homage to Norman McLaren and to the National Film Board of Canada, ''Arcana'' (Maurice Le Roux) – by Ph. Vaudoux, ''Acropole'' (Kostas Vretakos), ''Hiroshima mon amour'' (Alain Resnais), ''Medee'' (Yukio Ninagawa)
 
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Jean-Claude Carrière
 
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Jean-Claude Carrière and Chris Marker
 
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* [http://www.chrismarker.ch/etudes-generales-sur-chris-marker.html more], [http://chrismarker.org/category/books/ more]
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* [http://vimeo.com/66587994 Uncut version of the interview with Cornelius Castoriadis], video, 81 min. [http://www.lsa.umich.edu/modgreek/windowtogreekculture/historybiomemoir Commentary].
 
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* Chris Marker, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=2685 Commentaires 2]'', Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1967. Transcripts of three films by Marker: ''Le mystère Koumiko'' (1965), ''Soy Mexico'' [an unfilmed project] (1965), and ''Si j’avais quatre dromedaires'' (1966). (in French)
 
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* ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=6514 Chris Marker: Around the World with Chris Marker: Lost Horizons / Time Regained]'', ''Film Comment'', May-June and July-August 2003. Two-part feature on Marker.
 
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* [http://monoskop.org/log/?s=chris+marker Chris Marker at Monoskop Log]
 
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* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Marker Chris Marker at Wikipedia]
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* [http://www.chrismarker.ch ChrisMarker.ch]
 
* Finn Brunton, [http://www.radicalphilosophy.com/obituary/chris-marker-1921-2012 "Chris Marker, 1921–2012: Future anterior"], ''Radical Philosophy'' 176, Nov/Dec 2012.
 
* Finn Brunton, [http://www.radicalphilosophy.com/obituary/chris-marker-1921-2012 "Chris Marker, 1921–2012: Future anterior"], ''Radical Philosophy'' 176, Nov/Dec 2012.
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* http://www.theparisreview.org/art-photography/6819/chris-markers-studio-adam-bartos-and-ben-lerner
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* [https://www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/chris-marker-a-grin-without-a-cat/ Chris Marker: A Grin Without a Cat], retrospective exhibition, Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2014. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP7eaakeb7Y Curator's introduction].
  
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Born July 29, 1921(1921-07-29)
Neuilly-sur-Seine, Île-de-France, France
Died July 29, 2012(2012-07-29) (aged 91)
Paris, France
Web UbuWeb, Aaaaarg, Wikipedia, Academia.edu, Open Library

Chris Marker (born Christian Hippolyte François Georges Bouche-Villeneuve) 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), Sans Soleil (1983) and AK (1985), an essay film on the Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa. Marker is often associated with the Left Bank Cinema movement that occurred in the late 1950s and included such other filmmakers as Alain Resnais, Agnès Varda, Henri Colpi and Armand Gatti.

His friend and sometime collaborator Alain Resnais has called him "the prototype of the twenty-first-century man." Film theorist Roy Armes has said of him: "Marker is unclassifiable because he is unique...The French Cinema has its dramatists and its poets, its technicians, and its autobiographers, but only has one true essayist: Chris Marker."

Films[edit]

(directed films; in French unless noted otherwise)

Series
Feature-length films
  • Olympia 52, 1952.
  • Lettre de Sibérie [Letter From Siberia], 1957.
  • Le Joli mai, with Pierre Lhomme, 1962.
  • Cinétracts, with Jean-Luc Godard and Alain Resnais, silent, 1968.
  • La bataille des dix millions, 1970.
  • Le train en marche, 1971.
  • La Solitude du chanteur de fond, 1974.
  • L'Ambassade, 1975.
  • Le fond de l’air est rouge [Grin Without a Cat], 1977. (link to a version with EN audio & EN subs), Part 2
  • Sans soleil, 1982.
  • A.K, 1984.
  • L'Héritage de la chouette, 1989.
  • Le tombeau d’Alexandre, 1992. [1]
  • Level five, 1996.
Short films
  • Les Statues meurent aussi [Statues Also Die], with Alain Resnais, 1953, 30 min. (link to a version with EN subs)
  • Dimanche à Pékin, 1956.
  • Description d’un combat, 1960.
  • Cuba si!, 1961.
  • La Jetée, 1962.
  • Le Mystère Koumiko, 1965.
  • Si j'avais 4 dromadaires, 1966, 49 min.
  • A bientôt, j’espère, with Mario Marret, 1967.
  • La Sixième face du pentagone, with François Reichenbach, 1968.
  • Le Deuxième procès d’Artur London, 1969.
  • Jour de tournage, 1969.
  • On vous parle du Brésil, 1969.
  • Carlos Marighela, 1970.
  • Les Mots ont un sens, 1970.
  • Vive la baleine, with Mario Ruspoli, 1972.
  • On vous parle du Chili, 1973.
  • Puisqu’on vous dit que c’est possible, 1973.
  • Junkopia, with John Chapman and Frank Simeone, 1981.
  • 2084, 1984. (link to a version with EN subs)
  • Une journée d’Andrei Arsenevitch, 1999.
  • Le Souvenir d'un avenir [Remembrance of Things to Come], with Yannick Bellon, 2001, 42 min. (with ES subs)
  • Chats perchés, 2004.
Other
Commentaires 1-2. Log.

Writings, publications[edit]

  • Coréennes, Paris: Seuil, 1959. (French)
    • Coréennes, Seoul: Noonbit, 2008. (Korean)
    • Coréennes, trans. Brian Holmes, Columbus, OH: Wexner Center for the Arts, 2009, 31 pp, HTML. (English)
  • Commentaires 1, Paris: Seuil, 1961. Transcripts of six films by Marker: Les statues meurent aussi (1953), Dimanche à Pékin (1955), Lettre de Sibérie (1957), L'Amérique rêvée (1959), Description d'un combat (1960) and Cuba Si! (1961). (French)
  • Commentaires 2, Paris: Seuil, 1967. Transcripts of three films by Marker: Le mystère Koumiko (1965), Soy Mexico [an unfilmed project] (1965), and Si j’avais quatre dromedaires (1966). (French)
  • Silent Movie, ed. Ann Bremner, Columbus, OH: Wexner Center for the Arts/Ohio State University, 1995, 40 pp. Catalogue for the installation. (English)

Documentary films[edit]

Literature[edit]

Links[edit]

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