Chris Marker
Director
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电影
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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.
相机背后
12 monos
Original Film Writer
Nuit et Brouillard
Assistant Director, Script Editor
La jetée
Dir. de Fotografía, Director, Guionista
La confesión
静态摄影师
Sans soleil
Director, Escritor, Dir. de Fotografía, Visual Effects, Editor, Music
Le Joli Mai
Director, Escritor
A. K.
Escritor, Director, Editor
Loin du Vietnam
导演、作家、制片人、编辑
L'Héritage de la chouette
Productor, Director, Escritor, Creator
…A Valparaíso
Guionista
20 Little Films
Director
Le Tombeau d'Alexandre
Director, Escritor, Editor, Dir. de Fotografía
Lettre de Sibérie
Director, Escritor
Le fond de l'air est rouge
Escritor, Director, Editor
À bientôt, j'espère
Director
Les statues meurent aussi
Director, Escritor
Le Mystère de l’atelier quinze
作家
Le 20 heures dans les camps
Director
The Zone
Short Story
Chats perchés
Director, Escritor, Editor, Music, Dir. de Fotografía
Level Five
Director, Escritor, Compositor, Dir. de Fotografía
Eclipse
Director
Jouer à Paris
编辑
Une journée d'Andrei Arsenevitch
Director, Escritor, Editor, Dir. de Fotografía
La batalla de Chile (Parte 2). El Golpe de Estado
制片人
La Spirale
编辑
L'Amérique insolite
作家
Cinétracts
Director, Escritor
Quand le Siècle a Pris Forme (Guerre et révolution)
Director
Havre
谢谢
作为演员/演员
Tokyo-Ga
自我(未署名)
Sans soleil
自我(未署名)
Le Joli Mai
Self / Interviewer (voice)
A. K.
Self - Narrator (voice)
Las playas de Agnès
Self (archive footage)
La Traversée du désir
自己
Lettre de Sibérie
Stargazer (uncredited)
Ten Lives of a Cat: A Film about Chris Marker
Kaibyō (archive footage)
Level Five
Self (voice) (uncredited)
Une journée d'Andrei Arsenevitch
Self (voice) (uncredited)
Agnès de ci de là Varda
自己
The Invention of Chris Marker
自己
Le Mystère Koumiko
Narrator
Tokyo Days
Self (voice) (uncredited)
Rush - Voyage à Moscou
自己
Nostalgia for the Future
Self (Archive footage)
Grands soirs et petits matins
自己
Kashima Paradise
Narrator (voice)
Chris Marker: Never Explain, Never Complain
Self (archive footage)
Dans l'atelier de Chris Marker
自己
Prix Lumière à Chris Marker
自己
La Sixième Face du Pentagone