Chris Marker
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Christian François Bouche-Villeneuve, better known as Chris Marker (France, 29 July 1921 – 29 July 2012), was a French writer, poet, activist, critic, photographer, traveler, journalist, film essayist, multimedia artist, and documentary filmmaker. He began his career as part of the French Rive Gauche group—parallel to but distinct from the Nouvelle Vague—with which he would later share certain themes and collaborators. Marker is credited with developing the subjective documentary and is considered a pioneer of collective cinema in France. His films are known for their poetic, essayistic, and often experimental qualities, blending a reflective voice with a fascination for memory, art, war, politics, culture, and nature. Over six decades of work, he observed the world with meticulous curiosity, irony, and compassion, continually experimenting with new forms of image manipulation and montage. He was also famously elusive. For many years, few people knew what Chris Marker looked like—he disliked being photographed, and no confirmed portraits were publicly available. He often amused himself by giving contradictory accounts of his life in the rare interviews he granted. As Philippe Dubois observed, “Chris Marker is, in a way, the most celebrated of the unknown filmmakers.” His official website adds: “Rather than a man without qualities, he is a man without biography.” Marker also worked under numerous pseudonyms, including Hayao Yamaneko, Jacopo Berenzini, Kosinki, Michel Krasna, Sandor Krasna, and Guillaume-en-Égypte (his feline avatar), though his best-known identity remains Chris Marker. Among his most significant works are La Jetée (1962), Sans Soleil (1983), Far from Vietnam (1967), A Grin Without a Cat (1977), A.K. (1985), Level Five (1997), and One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich (1999). He also explored interactive and digital media with the CD-ROM Immemory (1997), maintained a website titled Gorgomancy, a YouTube channel called Kosinki, and created a virtual gallery, Ouvroir, within the online world Second Life.
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La Jetée (1962)
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Be Seeing You (1968)
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Sans Soleil (1983)
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A. K. (1985)
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The Lovely Month of May (1963)
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The Case of the Grinning Cat (2006)
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Report on Brazil: Torture (1969)
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Far from Vietnam (1967)
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The Koumiko Mystery (1965)
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Détour Ceausescu (1990)
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Berlin 1990 (1990)
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Theory of Sets (1991)
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Rush - Voyage à Moscou (1990)
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The Embassy (1973)
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Report on Brazil: Carlos Marighella (1970)
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Berlin 1990 (1990)
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The Train Rolls On (1971)
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A Grin Without a Cat (1977)
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Tchaïka (1994)
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Leila Attacks (2007)
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Sunday in Peking (1956)
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Blue Helmet (1995)
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20 Little Films (2012)
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One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich (1999)
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Tokyo Days (1988)
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Guillaume Movie (2008)
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Overnight (2011)
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Matta '85 (1985)
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Petite Ceinture (1994)
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Kino (2011)
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Remembrance of Things to Come (2001)
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Statues Also Die (1953)
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Metrotopia (2008)
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Cuba: Battle of the 10,000,000 (1971)
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Zoo Piece (1990)
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The Last Bolshevik (1994)
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You Speak of Chile: What Allende Said (1973)
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Level Five (1997)
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Three Haiku Videos (1994)
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The Loneliness of the Long Distance Singer (1974)
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You Speak of Prague: The Second Trial of Artur London (1971)
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Eclipse (1999)
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From Chris to Christo (1985)
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Junkopia (1981)
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The End of the World Seen by the Angel Gabriel (1947)
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Letter from Siberia (1957)
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Three Cheers for the Whale (1972)
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¡Cuba Sí! (1961)
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Description of a Struggle (1960)
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Olympia 52 (1952)
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When the Century Took Shape (War and Revolution) (1978)
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Cat Listening to Music (1988)
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Slon Tango (1993)
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The Astronauts (1959)
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Cinétracts (1968)
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Tempo Risoluto (2011)
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Stopover in Dubai (2011)
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Imagine (2011)
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An Owl Is an Owl Is an Owl (1990)
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If I Had Four Dromedaries (1966)
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We Maintain It Is Possible (1973)
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Silent Movie (Edit 2) (1995)
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Prime Time in the Camps (1993)
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A Mayor in Kosovo (2000)
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Henchman Glance (2008)
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iDead (2011)
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Zapping Zone (1990)
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ROYAL POLKA.mov (2011)
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Ouvroir the Movie (2010)
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Pictures at an Exhibition (2008)
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The Sixth Side of the Pentagon (1968)
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Owl Gets in Your Eyes (1994)
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A Year of TV Seen by Guillaume (2007)
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You Speak of Paris: Maspero. Words Have Meaning (1971)
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The Andrei Tarkovsky Companion (2007)
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2084: Video Clip for the Trade Unions' Reflection and Pleasure (1984)
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Bullfight in Okinawa (1994)
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Jour de tournage (1969)
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The Morning After (2008)
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Mémoires pour Simone (1986)
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