
Chris Marker
Directing
🎂 1921-07-29
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.
Cast credits(20)

Self (uncredited)
1983

Self (uncredited)
1985

Self (archive footage)
2008

Narrator
1965

Self
2009

Self (voice) (uncredited)
1997

Self - Narrator (voice)
1985

Self / Interviewer (voice)
1963

Self
1990

Stargazer (uncredited)
1957

Self
2011

Self (archive footage)
2015

Self (voice) (uncredited)
1999

Self
2011

Self
2020

Self (voice) (uncredited)
1988

Kaibyō (archive footage)
2023

Self
1978

Self
1962

Narrator (voice)
1973
Directing (84)

Director
1989

Director
1962

Director
1983

Assistant Director
1959

Director
1950

Director
1965

Director
1977

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1973

Director
1997

Director
1985

Director
1967

Director
1974

Director
1963

Director
1953

Director
1966

Director
2006

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1968

Director
1993

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1990

Director
1957

Director
1971

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1990

Director
1956

Director
2007

Director
1978
Director
1990

Director
2012

Director
1981
Director
1973

Director
1968

Director
2010

Director
1971

Director
1960

Director
1999

Director
1994

Director
1973

Director
1973
Director
1947

Director
1993

Director
1959

Director
2001
Director
1995

Director
1995

Director
1970

Director
1990

Director
2011

Director
1961

Director
2011

Director
1988

Director
1972

Director
1952

Director
1968
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1969
Director
1971

Director
1988

Director
1985
Director
1990

Director
1994
Director
1969

Director
2008

Director
2011

Director
2008
Director
2007

Director
1990
Director
1993
Director
1994

Director
2007
Director
1991

Director
2012
Director
1994

Director
2000

Director
1999

Director
1984
Director
2008

Director
1969
Director
2011
Director
1990
Director
1994

Director
2011
Director
2008
Director
2011
Director
1985

Director
1986
Director
2008
Production (7)
Writing (55)

Writer
1989

Original Film Writer
1995

Screenplay
1962

Writer
1983

Script Editor
1959

Writer
1950

Writer
1965

Writer
1977

Screenplay
1957

Screenplay
1964

Writer
1997

Writer
1985

Writer
1967

Writer
1963

Writer
1953

Writer
1966

Writer
2006

Other
1979

Writer
1968

Writer
1993

Writer
1957

Writer
1958

Writer
1960

Writer
1990

Writer
1956
Writer
1966
Screenplay
1966

Writer
1958

Writer
1981

Writer
1960

Writer
1999

Writer
1994

Original Concept
2024

Writer
1973
Writer
1947

Writer
1958

Writer
2001

Writer
1995

Writer
1970

Short Story
2017

Writer
1961

Screenplay
1961

Writer
1972

Writer
1952
Writer
1969

Writer
1988

Writer
2012

Writer
1957

Writer
1958

Writer
2011

Writer
1990
Story
2013
Writer
2008

Writer
1973
Writer
2008
Camera (15)

Director of Photography
1962

Director of Photography
1983

Still Photographer
1970

Director of Photography
1965

Director of Photography
1997

Director of Photography
1966

Director of Photography
1993

Director of Photography
1956

Director of Photography
1968

Director of Photography
1999
Director of Photography
1947

Director of Photography
1961

Director of Photography
1988

Director of Photography
1964
Director of Photography
2007