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It all started on June 25, 1987. The project of a television program dedicated to Greek culture had just crystallized. We had before us the specter which haunts the continents of cultural documentaries, and which Chekhov has formulated for eternity: say things that intelligent people already know and that imbeciles will never know… It was Jean-Pierre Vernant who had the idea of the banquet, and of this conversation without borders. The large amphitheater of the...
A Wunderkammer gallery of books by, on or adjacent to Chris Marker. As Bellour has said, Marker was as much an écrivain as a regisseur., and he has inspired much additional writing. From Le Coeur net to Passengers, from A Farewell to Movies to Owls at Noon, from Petite Planète to ZOO, from le livre impossible to Untimely Affects, from Maspero to Bellour, from Gautier to Keeney, from Darke to Lambert, from Susan Howe to Mars, from Montaigne to Morel...
Dans son texte du catalogue pour la Cinémathèque française : « L’invention de Marker », Florence Delay écrit de l’auteur de Sans soleil (1983) : « Dans quel ordre énumérer ses métiers ? […] Sans l’ombre d’une hésitation je place écrivain en premier. » En effet, « écrivain multimédia » selon l’expression de Guy Gauthier...
Courtesy of Chunking Books, 2021www.chunkingbooks.com Twitter: @chunkingbooks info@chunkingbooks.com In celebration of Chris Marker‘s 100th birthday, Chunking Books dedicates this first catalog to Chris Marker‘s incredibly vast and diverse body of work, ranging from his earliest poems to his multimedia installations, with the inclusion of some of his distinguished companions. Chunking Books is an independent online bookstore run by Sören...
Marker became the acknowledged master as "an essay documented by film" adding, in an aside that appears casual but is actually definitive, "written by a poet as well."[1] Sixty years after Bazin's statement and knowing, as we do now, something of the world of Marker's work, it"s worth looking again at that little word: “poet".
During a 1985 exhibition, the artist Matta takes Marker on a tour of his work. His wide-ranging commentary covers art-historical and philosophical questions about art and audience in a manner both mischievous and profound. Matta is an energized subject throughout the interview, and Marker's prowling, hand-held camera perfectly captures this sensation.
While the truncated version of La Renformée. La Corse presented here does not contain the complete text of the rare book, it does present a stunning glimpse of Marker's lesser-known nomadic photographs, in a book that is a collaboration between Marker and Marie Susini.
Originally published in 16:9 filmtidsskrift on 30 April 2018. Reprinted with the agreement of the author. Seb Doubinsky can be found on Twitter at @sebdoubinsky Chris Marker, La Jetée (1962) La Jetée (1962) is probably French director Chris Marker’s best-known short film. A dark science-fiction story shot in black and white and using only stills, it has become cult and a reference for many film directors. For instance, Terry Gilliam’s Twelve Monkeys (1995) has been...
Andrew Castillo has translated Maroussia Vossen’s book Chris Marker (Le Livre impossible) into English. Below you can find the PDF of the file. Many thanks to Mr. Castillo for his work on this important book. Vossen’s book was highlighted in an earlier post. Castillo’s blog is called “The Fate of Explanations,” and the article “Translation—Chris Marker (The Impossible Book) (2016),” published from June 17, 2020, Below is...
The image of happiness from Sans Soleil — Án sólar in Icelandic This morning, I received an email from Quentin Darcq alerting me to the presence of a video from Icelandic television on vk.com called “Исландское TV о поиске трёх сестёр из “Без солнца” (which translates as “Icelandic TV about the search for three sisters from Sans Soleil“). The post’s author is named Крис Маркер (“Chris Marker”). My thanks go out to...
A video essay by Luís Azevedo using the words filmmaker Chris Marker spoke about himself to tell his story. For the accompanying text, visit the Notebook: mubi.io/2utLQvM. In 1958, after watching LETTRE DE SIBÉRIE (1957), André Bazin wrote that Marker’s first feature film resembles nothing hitherto seen in documentary films: “The important word is ‘essay,’ understood in the same sense that it has in literature – an essay at once historical and political, written by...
The painting is the work of moonywolf and is titled “ville sans soleil.” It was published to Deviant Art originally. Moonywolf can be found at www.deviantart.com/moonywolf. Her portfolio is absolutely stunning, extending from delicate line drawings to world-building on a level of a C.S. Lewis or a J.R.R. Tolkein. There is a definite Japanese flavor to her work that aligns it all the more with the sensibilities of Chris Marker, so it is fitting she chose to invent...
