Chris Marker

Country France

Born 1921-07-29

Died 2012-07-29

Birthplace Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France

Defining Films

Le Souvenir de l’avenir

2001

Une Journée d’Andrei Arsenevitch

1999

Profile

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.

Thematic context drawn from Senses of Cinema. Read the full critical essay →

Critical Essay (Excerpt)

b. Christian François Bouche-Villeneuve (1)

Source: Senses of Cinema — Great Directors

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.

On Routine Pleasures · MUBI Notebook interview with Daniel Kasman: Beyond the Image: Jean-Pierre Gorin on 'Routine Pleasures' and the Act of Listening

Filmography (42)