Chris Marker
Director
99
Filmes
2
Séries
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.
Por Trás das Câmeras
12 monos
Original Film Writer
Nuit et Brouillard
Assistant Director, Script Editor
La jetée
Director, Dir. de Fotografía, Guionista
Le Joli Mai
Director, Escritor
Sans soleil
Director, Escritor, Music, Dir. de Fotografía, Editor, Visual Effects
A. K.
Director, Escritor, Editor
La confesión
Still Photographer
L'Héritage de la chouette
Director, Productor, Escritor, Creator
Loin du Vietnam
Director, Escritor, Productor, Editor
Le fond de l'air est rouge
Director, Escritor, Editor
À bientôt, j'espère
Director
…A Valparaíso
Guionista
Une journée d'Andrei Arsenevitch
Director, Escritor, Editor, Dir. de Fotografía
Lettre de Sibérie
Director, Escritor
Le Tombeau d'Alexandre
Director, Escritor, Editor, Dir. de Fotografía
Les statues meurent aussi
Director, Escritor
Le 20 heures dans les camps
Director
Le Mystère de l’atelier quinze
Escritor
Chats perchés
Director, Escritor, Editor, Music, Dir. de Fotografía
La batalla de Chile (Parte 2). El Golpe de Estado
Productor
Level Five
Director, Escritor, Compositor, Dir. de Fotografía
L'Amérique insolite
Escritor
Les Astronautes
Director
Le Mystère Koumiko
Director, Escritor, Dir. de Fotografía, Editor
Jouer à Paris
Editor
The Zone
Short Story
Berliner Ballade
Director, Editor, Escritor
La Brûlure de mille soleils
Editor
On vous parle du Brésil : Carlos Marighella
Director, Escritor, Editor
La batalla de Chile (Parte 3). El Poder Popular
Productor, Other
Como Ator/Atriz
Le Joli Mai
Self / Interviewer (voice)
Sans soleil
Self (uncredited)
A. K.
Self - Narrator (voice)
Las playas de Agnès
Self (archive footage)
Tokyo-Ga
Self (uncredited)
La Traversée du désir
Self
Une journée d'Andrei Arsenevitch
Self (voice) (uncredited)
Lettre de Sibérie
Stargazer (uncredited)
Ten Lives of a Cat: A Film about Chris Marker
Kaibyō (archive footage)
Agnès de ci de là Varda
Self
Level Five
Self (voice) (uncredited)
Le Mystère Koumiko
Narrator
The Invention of Chris Marker
Self
Rush - Voyage à Moscou
Self
Nostalgia for the Future
Self (Archive footage)
Grands soirs et petits matins
Self
Tokyo Days
Self (voice) (uncredited)
Kashima Paradise
Narrator (voice)
Dans l'atelier de Chris Marker
Self
Chris Marker: Never Explain, Never Complain
Self (archive footage)
Prix Lumière à Chris Marker
Self
La Sixième Face du Pentagone