Tagged Chris Marker

1 “I’ve been around the world several times, and now only banality still interests me.”  At the beginning of Chris Marker’s Sans soleil (1983), a voice tells us, “He wrote” this. “He”:  Marker?  We have no ...

He seemed immortal, Chris Marker. For so long the basic empirical data of his life – his name, date and place of birth, his private identity – were all up to rumour, speculation and second-guessing. Mystery...

I went with my close friends Steve Miller and Nancy Corwin, sometime in the autumn of 1969 (when I was twenty-three), to see Chris Marker’s Letter from Siberia at the New Yorker on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. ...

“Like the white swan’s eye to bear the director’s desire…” - Anonymous (1) I. La jetée and L’année dernière à Marienbad… “Death, where is your victory?” - I Corinthians (2)  The coincidence of La jetée (...

As comprehensive analysis of the institutional mechanisms of museologics, Les statues meurent aussi's (Statues Also Die, 1953) prime contention is, in effect, that anthropology and ethnology have their Schroedi...

For Guillaume-en-Egypte, Polly and Chris This is a slightly revised version of a paper presented at a symposium devoted to Chris Marker in the late 1990s. Each of the speakers was asked to identify and talk ...

There are few enough artists or critics who have, by sheer force of imagination, been able to transform the way thousands understand and appreciate an artistic medium. For many, Susan Sontag revolutionised ...

Shortly into the second part of Chris Marker’s epic 1977 compilation film Le Fond de l’air est rouge, one of the great acts of montage in the history of the cinema takes place. After presenting us with a prolon...