IFFR 2025
30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025

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      Chris Marker

      Chris Marker

      Still: Sans soleil
      Chris MARKER (1921-2012, France) is regarded as one of the most innovative film and documentary makers of the 1960s and 1970s. The 16mm documentary Olympia 52 about the 1952 Helsinki Olympic Games was his first film. Marker was best known for his award-winning documentary Sans soleil (1982) about human memory. His documentaries about Beijing, Siberia and Cuba have come to be regarded as classics. Not much is known about his life: Marker (pseudonym of Christian François Bouche-Villeneuve) shunned interviews and invented biographical ‘data’. Before focusing in the early 1950s on non-dogmatic, Marxist-oriented documentaries, he wrote several articles, essays, poems and a novel. Chris Marker passed away in 2012 at the age of 91.

      Filmography

      (selection) Olympia 52 (1952, short doc), Les statues meurent aussi/Statues Also Die (1953, short doc, co-dir), Dimanche à Pekin (1955, short doc), Le mystère de l’atelier (1957, short), Lettre de Sibérie (1958, doc), Les astronautes (1960, short), Description d’un combat/Description of a struggle (1960, doc), Cuba si! (1961, doc), Le joli mai (1963, doc), La jetée (1964, short), Le mystère Koumiko/The Koumiko Mystery (1965, doc), Si j’avais quatre dromadaires (1966, doc), La sixième face du Pentagone (1968, short doc), A bientôt j’espère (1969, short), La bataille de dix millions/Cuba (1970, doc), Les mots ont un sens (1970, short doc), Le fond de l’air est rouge (1977), A.K. (1985, doc), Berliner Ballade (1990, TV, short doc), Le tombeau d’Alexandre (1993, doc), Le facteur sonne toujours cheval (1994, TV, short), Level Five (1997, doc), Un maire au Kosovo (2000, short doc), Remembrance of Things to Come (2001, short doc), Chats perchés (2004, TV doc), Leila Attacks (2006, short), Stopover in Dubai (2011, short doc)

      More info: Wikipedia, Chris Marker

      Chris Marker at IFFR