Chris Marker Movies

  • 1986
    Mémoires pour Simone

    Mémoires pour Simone

    Mémoires pour Simone

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    A wonderful tribute to the great Simone Signoret by Chris Marker. Rare documentary, made by movie clips and narration, with many lines Simone...

    Mémoires pour Simone
  • 1988
    Cat Listening to Music

    Cat Listening to Music

    Cat Listening to Music

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    Part of Chris Marker’s Bestiaire (Petit Bestiaire) collection, Cat Listening to Music simply observes a cat responding to the sound of a piano.

    Cat Listening to Music
  • 1958
    Les hommes de la baleine

    Les hommes de la baleine

    Les hommes de la baleine

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    In a small fishermen's village in the Azores, an enormous whale is being jointed, carved and stocked. Once this task is over, the whalers ready...

    Les hommes de la baleine
  • 1968
    Cinétracts

    Cinétracts

    Cinétracts

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    A series of 43 documentary shorts, directed (without credit) by several famous French filmmakers and each running between two and four minutes. Each...

    Cinétracts
  • 1947
    The End of the World Seen by the Angel Gabriel

    The End of the World Seen by the Angel Gabriel

    The End of the World Seen by the Angel Gabriel

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    This film is considered lost. Chris Marker described it as his first film, shot in Berlin on an 8mm movie camera purportedly borrowed from...

    The End of the World Seen by the Angel Gabriel
  • 1966
    The Forbidden Volcano

    The Forbidden Volcano

    The Forbidden Volcano

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    Set in Zaire, the film follows an expedition exploring the crater of the Niragongo volcano of the Virunga chain, whose eruptions are known for their...

    The Forbidden Volcano
  • 1994
    Three Haiku Videos

    Three Haiku Videos

    Three Haiku Videos

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    A collection of three short “video haikus” by Chris Marker. Yanka / Tchaika observes the Seine beneath a bridge; Owl Gets in Your Eyes...

    Three Haiku Videos
  • 2008
    Henchman Glance

    Henchman Glance

    Henchman Glance

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    Excerpts from Alain Resnais' film NIGHT AND FOG served as evidence during the trial against Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem. On the evening before the...

    Henchman Glance
  • 2015
    Chris Marker: Never Explain, Never Complain

    Chris Marker: Never Explain, Never Complain

    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...

    Chris Marker: Never Explain, Never Complain
  • 2010
    Ouvroir the Movie

    Ouvroir the Movie

    Ouvroir the Movie

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    A tour of Ouvroir, the virtual museum Chris Marker created in the online world Second Life with collaborator Max Moswitzer. Guided by Marker’s...

    Ouvroir the Movie
  • 1973
    We Maintain It Is Possible

    We Maintain It Is Possible

    We Maintain It Is Possible

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    In 1973, after the failure of wage negotiations with the management of the Lip watch factories, the workers went on strike. Marker was responsible...

    We Maintain It Is Possible
  • 1971
    Cuba: Battle of the 10,000,000

    Cuba: Battle of the 10,000,000

    Cuba: Battle of the 10,000,000

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    Documentary about economic development in Cuba, particularly the effort to boost output of sugar cane. This film is made from a compilation of...

    Cuba: Battle of the 10,000,000
  • 2011
    iDead

    iDead

    iDead

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    Video on the mass media response to the bardo-traversing of Steve Jobs. Long live the archive and the archivist.

    iDead
  • 1985
    From Chris to Christo

    From Chris to Christo

    From Chris to Christo

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    In the fall of 1985, Christo "packed" the Pont Neuf. In the space of a week, enthusiasts, critics and curious people drastically change the...

    From Chris to Christo
  • 2000
    A Mayor in Kosovo

    A Mayor in Kosovo

    A Mayor in Kosovo

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    This is where sizzling fire still smoldering in a war which everybody talked a lot and which we rarely had the opportunity to hear the actors. Once...

    A Mayor in Kosovo
  • 1978
    When the Century Took Shape (War and Revolution)

    When the Century Took Shape (War and Revolution)

    When the Century Took Shape (War and Revolution)

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    In 1978, just after Le fond de l'Air Est Rouge, which mercilessly analyzed the previous ten years of the revolutionary left's momentum until its...

    When the Century Took Shape (War and Revolution)
  • 1997
    Level Five

    Level Five

    Level Five

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    Laura, a French programmer, inherits the task of creating a game about the World War II Battle of Okinawa. Her research and interviews with Japanese...

    Level Five
  • 2008
    Pictures at an Exhibition

    Pictures at an Exhibition

    Pictures at an Exhibition

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    Pictures, collages, well, call'em XPLUGS

    Pictures at an Exhibition
  • 1990
    An Owl Is an Owl Is an Owl

    An Owl Is an Owl Is an Owl

    An Owl Is an Owl Is an Owl

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    Part of Chris Marker’s Bestiaire (Petit Bestiaire) collection, An Owl Is an Owl Is an Owl is a short video meditation on the gaze and movement...

    An Owl Is an Owl Is an Owl
  • 1990
    Zapping Zone

    Zapping Zone

    Zapping Zone

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    Chris Marker’s work, "Zapping Zone (Proposals for an imaginary television)" was produced by the Mnam-Centre Pompidou in the...

    Zapping Zone