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.
Known For | Directing |
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Most Rating | 8.868 |
Birthday | 1921-07-29 |
Place of Birth | Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France |
Also Known As | 크리스 마르케, Крис Маркер, クリス・マルケル, Christian Bouche-Villeneuve, Christian François Bouche-Villeneuve, Jacopo Berenzini, Michel Krasna, Sandor Krasna, Hayao Yamaneko, Kosinki, 크리스 마커, Guillaume-en-Égypte, |
1999
One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich
7/10
A documentary about the Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky. The film was an episode of the French documentary film series Filmmakers of our time. The...
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One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich
1985
A. K.
6.2/34
An intimate chronicle of the shooting of Ran (1985), a film directed by the legendary Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa.
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A. K.
1985
Tokyo-Ga
6.908/76
German director Wim Wenders tries to explore the Tokyo that was depicted in the films of Yasujiro Ozu and finds a very different city.
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Tokyo-Ga
2011
In Chris Marker's Studio
6.2/5
Two friends (and legendary French New Wave filmmakers) meet in real and virtual worlds.
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In Chris Marker's Studio
2009
La Traversée du désir
5.7/3
What was your first desire? What did you long for most? Arielle Dombasle put these questions to a wide circle of famous people.
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La Traversée du désir
1988
Tokyo Days
5.2/6
This idiosyncratic view of Tokyo begins with a live mannequin in a store window and French actress Arielle Dombasle chatting with Marker as they wande...
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Tokyo Days
1965
The Koumiko Mystery
6.7/9
While filming the Olympics, a filmmaker encounters a Japanese girl. Manchurian born and French educated, she's an intriguing anomaly. He films her aro...
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The Koumiko Mystery
1973
Kashima Paradise
8/2
This 1973 French documentary explores the conflict between modern values and material comforts in Japan and the more traditional obligations (giri) an...
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Kashima Paradise
1997
Level Five
6.269/26
The French computer programmer Laura inherits the task of making a computer game of the Battle of Okinawa in Japan during World War 2. She searches th...
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Level Five
1963
The Lovely Month of May
8/40
Candid interviews of ordinary people on the meaning of happiness, an often amorphous and inarticulable notion that evokes more basic and fundamentally...
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The Lovely Month of May
2020
The Invention of Chris Marker
0/0
A desktop documentary about the online afterlife of the late French filmmaker, Chris Marker.
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The Invention of Chris Marker
1990
Rush - Voyage à Moscou
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A document of Perestroika, to be viewed as (nearly) unedited rushes of a voyage to Moscow, preserved by compatriot Costa-Gavras. Says Émilie Cauquy of...
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Rush - Voyage à Moscou
2023
Ten Lives of a Cat: A Film about Chris Marker
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Ten years after the death of iconic French filmmaker, Chris Marker. A filmmaker, hoping to rediscover that unique sensibility against the uncertainty...
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Ten Lives of a Cat: A Film about Chris Marker
1962
Lumière Award to Chris Marker
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This silent film shows the jury voting for Chris Marker, who receives the Louis Lumière award for his film ¡Cuba sí!
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Lumière Award to Chris Marker
1978
May Days
7/6
Filmmaker William Klein documents the Paris student riots that occurred in May of 1968.
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May Days
1983
Sans Soleil
7.5/222
A woman narrates the thoughts of a world traveler, meditations on time and memory expressed in words and images from places as far-flung as Japan, Gui...
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Sans Soleil
2011
Agnès Varda: From Here to There
8.2/3
Agnès Varda travels around the world to meet friends, artists and filmmakers for an expansive view of the global contemporary art scene.
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Agnès Varda: From Here to There
2015
Chris Marker: Never Explain, Never Complain
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Posthumous portrait of Chris Marker, the elusive French filmmaker- essayist, traveller, photographer and cat-lover. Two filmmakers, Jean-Marie Barbe a...
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