Chris Marker
Christian François Bouche-Villeneuve, also known as Chris Marker (France: 29 July 1921 - 29 July 2012) was a French writer, poet, activist, internaut, critic, photographer, traveler, journalist, film enssayist, multimedia artist and documentary maker. He began his work as part of the French Rive gauche group, parallel but different from the nouvelle vague, with which he would later share themes and works. He is credited with creating the subjective documentary and is considered a pioneer of collective cinema in France. His cinematographic work is known for its poetic, sometimes ethereal, and video-art-like expression. He dedicated himself, during sixty years of work, to observing, with meticulous curiosity, with caustic and often amusing irony, even with anger, the vicissitudes of world history and also of the individual (memory, art, wars, politics, culture, nature, etc), all this while experimenting with various methods of image manipulation and montage. He is also known for the ignorance of his person. For years, hardly anyone knew what Chris Marker looked like, he didn't like being photographed, so there were no photos of him. It amused him to offer contradictory accounts of his life in the few written interviews he gave. The closest you can get to Marker's intimate life is in his film career. Philippe Dubois once said: "Chris Marker is, in a way, the most celebrated of the unknown filmmakers". "Rather than a Man Without Qualities, he is a Man Without Biography," says his official website: chrismarker.org. He used many pseudonyms too, some are Hayao Yamaneko, Jacopo Berenzini, Kosinki, Michel Krasna, Sandor Krasna, Guillaume-en-Égypte (his avatar) & the best known Chris Marker. Some of his most important works are La Jetée (1962), Sans Soleil (1983), Far From Vietnam (1967), A Grin Without a Cat (1977), Level Five (1997), A.K. (1985) & One Day In the Life of Andrei Arsenevitch (1999). He also dabbled in CD-ROMs with Immemory (1997), has a website called Gorgomancy, a Youtube channel called Kosinki & created a whole world dedicated to his interests, life and works, called 'Ouvroir', in the virtual world game: Second Life.
Lumière Award to Chris Marker
(Self)
May Days
(Self)
The Invention of Chris Marker
(Self)
Sans Soleil
(Self (uncredited))
Rush - Voyage à Moscou
(Lui-même)
Agnès Varda: From Here to There
(Self)
Ten Lives of a Cat: A Film about Chris Marker
(Kaibyō (archive footage))
One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich
(Self (voice) (uncredited))
A. K.
(Self - Narrator (voice))
Chris Marker: Never Explain, Never Complain
(Self (archive footage))
Tokyo-Ga
(Self (uncredited))
The Beaches of Agnès
(Self (archive footage))
In Chris Marker's Studio
(Self)
La Traversée du désir
(Self)
Tokyo Days
(Self (voice) (uncredited))
The Koumiko Mystery
(Narrator)
Kashima Paradise
(Narrator (voice))
Level Five
(Self (voice) (uncredited))
The Lovely Month of May
(Self / Interviewer (voice))
Sans Soleil
(Director)
Sans Soleil
(Writer)
La Jetée
(Director)
La Jetée
(Director of Photography)
¡Cuba Sí!
(Writer)
¡Cuba Sí!
(Screenplay)
¡Cuba Sí!
(Director of Photography)
Remembrance of Things to Come
(Director)
Remembrance of Things to Come
(Writer)
Imagine
(Director)
When the Century Took Shape (War and Revolution)
(Director)
ROYAL POLKA.mov
(Director)
Statues Also Die
(Director)
Cat Listening to Music
(Director)
Remembrance of Things to Come
(Music)
Rush - Voyage à Moscou
(Director)
A Grin Without a Cat
(Director)
A Grin Without a Cat
(Writer)
Level Five
(Director)
Level Five
(Writer)
Junkopia
(Director)
Junkopia
(Writer)
Junkopia
(Original Music Composer)
The Last Bolshevik
(Director)
The Astronauts
(Director)
A Year of TV Seen by Guillaume
(Director)
A Year of TV Seen by Guillaume
(Editor)
The Case of the Grinning Cat
(Director)
The Koumiko Mystery
(Director)
The Koumiko Mystery
(Writer)
The Embassy
(Director)
The Embassy
(Writer)
The Lovely Month of May
(Director)
Letter from Siberia
(Director)
¡Cuba Sí!
(Director)
One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich
(Director)
The Train Rolls On
(Director)
Cuba: Battle of the 10,000,000
(Director)
Olympia 52
(Director)
2084: Video Clip for the Trade Unions' Reflection and Pleasure
(Director)
Sunday in Peking
(Director)
Description of a Struggle
(Director)
Description of a Struggle
(Writer)
The Spiral
(Editor)
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Singer
(Director)
If I Had Four Dromedaries
(Director)
If I Had Four Dromedaries
(Writer)
The Sixth Side of the Pentagon
(Director)
Three Cheers for the Whale
(Director)
The Last Bolshevik
(Writer)
The Last Bolshevik
(Cinematography)
The Last Bolshevik
(Editor)
You Speak of Paris: Maspero. Words Have Meaning
(Director)
You Speak of Prague: The Second Trial of Artur London
(Director)
One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich
(Writer)
One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich
(Editor)
We Maintain It Is Possible
(Director)
Matta '85
(Director)
A Mayor in Kosovo
(Director)
Berlin 1990
(Director)
An Owl Is an Owl Is an Owl
(Director)
Zoo Piece
(Director)
Theory of Sets
(Director)
Prime Time in the Camps
(Director)
Slon Tango
(Director)
Bullfight in Okinawa
(Director)
Silent Movie (Edit 2)
(Director)
Be Seeing You
(Director)
Tokyo Days
(Director)
Theory of Sets
(Producer)
Blue Helmet
(Director)
Three Haiku Videos
(Director)
Three Haiku Videos
(Producer)
Three Haiku Videos
(Writer)
Eclipse
(Director)
A Grin Without a Cat
(Editor)
Cinétracts
(Director)
Leila Attacks
(Director)
Leila Attacks
(Cinematography)
Lluvia de jaulas
(Thanks)
Olympia 52
(Writer)
The Case of the Grinning Cat
(Writer)
Statues Also Die
(Writer)
Zapping Zone
(Director)
Ouvroir the Movie
(Director)
Broadway by Light
(Writer)
The Confession
(Still Photographer)
Night and Fog
(Assistant Director)
The Sea and the Days
(Writer)
Life and Freaky Times of Uncle Luke
(Writer)
Green Vinyl
(Thanks)
One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich
(Cinematography)
Owl Gets in Your Eyes
(Director)
Mémoires pour Simone
(Director)
Tchaïka
(Director)
Petite Ceinture
(Director)
From Chris to Christo
(Director)
Cinétracts
(Writer)
The Heat of a Thousand Suns
(Editor)
Détour Ceausescu
(Director)
Détour Ceausescu
(Writer)
A. K.
(Director)
A. K.
(Writer)
A. K.
(Editor)
Guillaume Movie
(Director)
Guillaume Movie
(Writer)
Overnight
(Director)
Overnight
(Writer)
The Sixth Side of the Pentagon
(Producer)
The Sixth Side of the Pentagon
(Cinematography)
Valparaiso
(Screenplay)
Far from Vietnam
(Director)
Report on Brazil: Torture
(Director)
Des Hommes Dans Le Ciel
(Writer)
The Mystery of Workshop 15
(Writer)
Berliner Ballade
(Director)
Django Reinhardt
(Screenplay)
20 Little Films
(Director)
Far from Vietnam
(Writer)
Les Deux mémoires
(Editor)
Democracy or city of dreams
(Director)
Jour de tournage
(Director)
The Forbidden Volcano
(Writer)
Far from Vietnam
(Producer)
Far from Vietnam
(Editor)
Congo Oyé (We Have Come Back)
(Editor)
Kino
(Director)
You Speak of Chile: What Allende Said
(Director)
Report on Brazil: Carlos Marighella
(Director)
The Morning After
(Director)
The Morning After
(Editor)
Tempo Risoluto
(Director)
Tempo Risoluto
(Editor)
Pictures at an Exhibition
(Director)
Les hommes de la baleine
(Writer)
Twelve Monkeys
(Original Film Writer)
Playtime in Paris
(Editor)
From a Distant Gaze
(Cinematography)
Tokyo Days
(Editor)
Tokyo Days
(Cinematography)
The Lovely Month of May
(Writer)
ECU
(Thanks)
Level Five
(Original Music Composer)
Junkopia
(Editor)
Sans Soleil
(Music)
Sans Soleil
(Director of Photography)
Sans Soleil
(Editor)
Sans Soleil
(Visual Effects)
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Singer
(Editor)
La Jetée
(Writer)
Tchaïka
(Editor)
Havre
(Thanks)
The Andrei Tarkovsky Companion
(Director)
Report on Brazil: Torture
(Writer)
The Forbidden Volcano
(Screenplay)
Report on Brazil: Carlos Marighella
(Writer)
Report on Brazil: Carlos Marighella
(Editor)
Blue Helmet
(Writer)
Blue Helmet
(Editor)
Berliner Ballade
(Editor)
Berliner Ballade
(Writer)
La Jétee
(Story)
Level Five
(Director of Photography)
Stopover in Dubai
(Director)
Kashima Paradise
(Writer)
The Koumiko Mystery
(Director of Photography)
The Koumiko Mystery
(Editor)
¡Cuba Sí!
(Cinematography)
Night and Fog
(Script Editor)
Metrotopia
(Director)
Metrotopia
(Writer)
The Battle of Chile: Part II
(Producer)
The Battle of Chile: Part III
(Producer)
iDead
(Director)
Henchman Glance
(Director)
Sunday in Peking
(Writer)
Sunday in Peking
(Cinematography)
America as Seen by a Frenchman
(Writer)
Three Cheers for the Whale
(Writer)
Three Cheers for the Whale
(Editor)
Three Cheers for the Whale
(Sound)
Immemory
(Director)
Immemory
(Editor)
The Battle of Chile: Part III
(Other)
Tokyo Days
(Writer)
The Owl's Legacy
(Director)
The Owl's Legacy
(Writer)
The Owl's Legacy
(Producer)
Concours de rêve : La Clé des songes
(Director)
Concours de rêve : La Clé des songes
(Writer)
Concours de rêve : La Clé des songes
(Creator)