Chris Marker
Directing
Born July 29, 1921 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France
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.
Filmography
L’indispensable
Photos/Extrait
Nostalgia for the Future
Self (Archive footage)
Ten Lives of a Cat: A Film about Chris Marker
Kaibyō (archive footage)
The Invention of Chris Marker
Self
Lluvia de jaulas
The Zone
Chris Marker: Never Explain, Never Complain
Self (archive footage)
Life and Freaky Times of Uncle Luke
20 Little Films
In Chris Marker's Studio
Self
iDead
Kino
Agnès Varda: From Here to There
Self
Imagine
Stopover in Dubai
ROYAL POLKA.mov
Overnight
Ouvroir the Movie
La Traversée du désir
Self
The Beaches of Agnès
Self (archive footage)
Henchman Glance
Pictures at an Exhibition
Metrotopia
Guillaume Movie
A Year of TV Seen by Guillaume
The Andrei Tarkovsky Companion
The Case of the Grinning Cat
Green Vinyl
Remembrance of Things to Come
A Mayor in Kosovo
Eclipse
One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich
Self (voice) (uncredited)
Level Five
Self (voice) (uncredited)
Twelve Monkeys
Blue Helmet
The Last Bolshevik
Bullfight in Okinawa
Three Haiku Videos
Petite Ceinture
Prime Time in the Camps
Slon Tango
Berlin 1990
Zoo Piece
Rush - Voyage à Moscou
Self
The Owl's Legacy
Tokyo Days
Self (voice) (uncredited)
Cat Listening to Music
Havre
Mémoires pour Simone
A. K.
Self - Narrator (voice)
Tokyo-Ga
Self (uncredited)
From Chris to Christo
2084: Video Clip for the Trade Unions' Reflection and Pleasure
Sans Soleil
Self (uncredited)
Junkopia
The Battle of Chile: Part III
When the Century Took Shape (War and Revolution)
May Days
Self
A Grin Without a Cat
The Spiral
The Battle of Chile: Part II
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Singer
Les Deux mémoires
The Embassy
You Speak of Chile: What Allende Said
Kashima Paradise
Narrator (voice)
Three Cheers for the Whale
The Train Rolls On
You Speak of Prague: The Second Trial of Artur London
Congo Oyé (We Have Come Back)
Cuba: Battle of the 10,000,000
Report on Brazil: Carlos Marighella
The Confession
The Sixth Side of the Pentagon
Cinétracts
Be Seeing You
Far from Vietnam
If I Had Four Dromedaries
The Koumiko Mystery
Narrator
The Heat of a Thousand Suns
From a Distant Gaze
Valparaiso
The Lovely Month of May
Self / Interviewer (voice)
Playtime in Paris
Lumière Award to Chris Marker
Self
La Jetée
¡Cuba Sí!
Description of a Struggle
America as Seen by a Frenchman
The Astronauts
Broadway by Light
The Sea and the Days
Des Hommes Dans Le Ciel
Les hommes de la baleine
Letter from Siberia
Stargazer (uncredited)
The Mystery of Workshop 15
Django Reinhardt
Sunday in Peking
Night and Fog
Statues Also Die
Olympia 52
Concours de rêve : La Clé des songes