Chris Marker
Chris Marker (French: [maʁkɛʁ]; born Christian-François Bouche-Villeneuve; 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 occurred in the late 1950s and 1960s, and included such other filmmakers as Alain Resnais, Agnès Varda and Jacques Demy.
Defining films
In their own words
Sans soleil is a very interesting film because it's a film about memory and its impossibility, and about the fact that you remember things in a sort of broken line.
Sans soleil is a very interesting film because it's about memory and its impossibility, about how you remember things in a sort of broken line. That kind of work is extremely important to me.
What he does brilliantly is take news footage, and he does it with a deep sense of moral imagination.
Critical context
b. Christian François Bouche-Villeneuve (1)
Films by decade
