Notes on Sans Soleil Murray Pomerance March 2013 Feature Articles Issue 66 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...
Welcome to Issue 64 of our journal the editors September 2012 Editorial Issue 64 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...
My Letter from Siberia Murray Pomerance September 2012 Chris Marker Dossier, Feature Articles Issue 64 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...
Séance “C.M.” Gavin Keeney September 2012 Chris Marker Dossier, Feature Articles Issue 64 “Like the white swan’s eye to bear the director’s desire…” - Anonymous (1) I. La jetée and L’année dernière à...
Statues Also Die, or Schroedinger’s Black Cat Daniel Vilensky September 2012 Chris Marker Dossier, Feature Articles Issue 64 As comprehensive analysis of the institutional mechanisms of museologics, Les statues meurent aussi's (Statues Also Die, 1953) prime contention is,...
The Cats in the Hats Come Back; or “at least they’ll see the cats”: Pussycat Poetics and the Work of Chris Marker Adrian Danks September 2012 Chris Marker Dossier, Feature Articles Issue 64 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...
Chris Marker: Film as Geopolitical Enlightenment Nick Shimmin September 2012 Chris Marker Dossier, Feature Articles Issue 64 There are few enough artists or critics who have, by sheer force of imagination, been able to transform the way thousands understand and...
Montage as Resonance: Chris Marker and the Dialectical Image Daniel Fairfax September 2012 Chris Marker Dossier, Feature Articles Issue 64 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...
Chris Marker and the Archival Imperative: La Jetée: ciné-roman and Staring Back by Chris Marker and Chris Marker by Sarah Cooper Patrick Friel September 2009 Book Reviews Issue 52
“All the Thrills of the Exotic”: Collective Memory and Cultural Performance in Chris Marker’s Dimanche á Pekin Louise Sheedy September 2009 Cinémathèque Annotations on Film Issue 52