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* Chris Marker, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=2685 Commentaires 1]'', Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1961. Transcripts of six films by Marker: ''Les Statues meurent aussi'', ''Dimanche à Pékin'', ''Lettre de Sibérie'', ''L'Amérique rêvée'', ''Description d'un combat'' and ''Cuba Si!''. (in French)   
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* Chris Marker, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=2685 Commentaires 1]'', Paris: Éditions du 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). (in French)   
 
* 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)
 
* 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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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

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."

Works

Marker Chris Le coeur net.jpg

The Forthright Spirit (Le cœur net)

Chris Marker's debut novel. The book received a Prix Onion in 1950.

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.

"His friend Alain Resnais recalls that Marker favored a 1951 English translation of his novel because it had so little resemblance to the original." (source)

Download the English edition in PDF.

The Owl's Legacy (L'Héritage de la chouette)

1989, France/Greece, col., Beta sp, Television Mini-Series, 13 episodes x 26'.

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. (source of the text)

Episode 1: Symposium, or Accepted Ideas


26 min. Download (WEBM)

Episode 2: Olympics, or Imaginary Greece


26 min. Download (WEBM)

Episode 3: Democracy, or the City of Dreams


26 min. Download (WEBM)

Episode 4: Nostalgia, or the Impossible Return


26 min. Download (WEBM)

Episode 5: Amnesia, or History on the March


26 min. Download (WEBM)

Episode 6: Mathematics, or the Empire Counts Back


26 min. Download (WEBM)

Episode 7: Logomachy, or the Dialect of the Tribe


26 min. Download (WEBM)

Episode 8: Music, or Inner Space


26 min. Download (WEBM)

Episode 9: Cosmogony, or the Ways of the World


26 min. Download (WEBM)

Episode 10: Mythology, or Lies like Truth


26 min. Download (WEBM)

Episode 11: Misogyny, or the Snares of Desire


26 min. Download (WEBM)

Episode 12: Tragedy, or the Illusion of Death


26 min. Download (WEBM)

Episode 13: Philosophy, or the Triumph of the Owl


16 of 26 min (incomplete). Download (WEBM)
With

Daniel Andler, Theo Angelopoulos, Kostas Axelos, Catherine Belkhodja, Linos Benakis, Richard Bennett, Christiane Bron, Cornelius Castoriadis, Sophie Chauveau, Dimitri Delis, Patrick Deschamps, Marcel Detienne, Arielle Dombasle, Françoise Frontisi-Ducroux, Kostas Georgousopoulos, Mark Griffith, David Halperin, Mina Himona, Angélique Ionatos, Viatcheslav Ivanov, Michel Jobert, Lee Kaminski, Lika Kavjaradze, Elia Kazan, Nancy Laughlin, François Lissarrague, Baltasar Lopes, Otar Lordkipanidzé, Merab Mamardachvili, Fouli Manelopoulos, Guivi Margvelachvili, Matta, Melina Mercouri, Spiros Mercouris, Alex Minotis, Oswyn Murray, Michael Nagler, Yukio Ninagawa, Tatiana Papamashou, Amy Phillips, Marios Ploritis, Thomas Rosenmayer, Mihalis Sakellariou, Renate Schleisser, Alain Schnapp, Michel Serres, Giulia Sissa, Manuela Smith, Deborah Steiner, George Steiner, Nikos Svoronos, Leonid Tchelidzé, Evi Touloupa, Vassilis Vassilikos, Jean-Pierre Vernant, John Winkler, Iannis Xenakis, Atsuhiko Yoshida

Music

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.

UPIC: Alain Desprès, Agnès Frontisi, Laurence Braunberger, Thierry Kimmel, Ramuntcho Matta

Excerpts: O Hélios O Héliatora by Angélique Ionatos (poem by Odysseus Elytis)

DFR: Florence Malraux, Valérie de Ricquebourg, Carline Bouilhet, Diana Garcia, Laurence Brauberger, Françoise Widhoff

Quotes

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)

Voice over

André Dussolier

Edited by

Khadicha Bariha, Nedjma Scialom

Photographed

Emiko Omori, Peter Chapell

From an idea

Jean-Claude Carrière

Written

Jean-Claude Carrière and Chris Marker

Language

English, and French, Georgian, Greek with English subtitles

Co-production

ATTICA ART PRODUCTIONS INC (Onassis Foundation), LA S.E.P.T. (Thierry Garrel), FIT PRODUCTION with the participation of SOFICA IMAGES INVESTISSEMENTS CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA CINEMATOGRAPHIE TREBITSCH PRODUKTION INTERNATIONAL GMBH Société Nationale de Programme FRANCE-REGIONS FR3

Source

Videos were converted from Flash files found on JAFB's Viddler account. Gratuitous thanks to the original uploader.

More about the series

Literature

By Marker
  • Chris Marker, Commentaires 1, Paris: Éditions du 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). (in French)
  • Chris Marker, 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)
On Marker

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