Biography
Christian François Bouche-Villeneuve, also known as Chris Marker (France: 29 July 1921 - 29 July 2012) was a French writer, poet, activist, internaut, critic, photographer, traveler, journalist, film enssayist, multimedia artist and documentary maker.
He began his work as part of the French Rive gauche group, parallel but different from the nouvelle vague, with which he would later share themes and works. He is credited with creating the subjective documentary and is considered a pioneer of collective cinema in France. His cinematographic work is known for its poetic, sometimes ethereal, and video-art-like expression. He dedicated himself, during sixty years of work, to observing, with meticulous curiosity, with caustic and often amusing irony, even with anger, the vicissitudes of world history and also of the individual (memory, art, wars, politics, culture, nature, etc), all this while experimenting with various methods of image manipulation and montage.
He is also known for the ignorance of his person. For years, hardly anyone knew what Chris Marker looked like, he didn't like being photographed, so there were no photos of him. It amused him to offer contradictory accounts of his life in the few written interviews he gave. The closest you can get to Marker's intimate life is in his film career. Philippe Dubois once said: "Chris Marker is, in a way, the most celebrated of the unknown filmmakers". "Rather than a Man Without Qualities, he is a Man Without Biography," says his official website: chrismarker.org.
He used many pseudonyms too, some are Hayao Yamaneko, Jacopo Berenzini, Kosinki, Michel Krasna, Sandor Krasna, Guillaume-en-Égypte (his avatar) & the best known Chris Marker.
Some of his most important works are La Jetée (1962), Sans Soleil (1983), Far From Vietnam (1967), A Grin Without a Cat (1977), Level Five (1997), A.K. (1985) & One Day In the Life of Andrei Arsenevitch (1999). He also dabbled in CD-ROMs with Immemory (1997), has a website called Gorgomancy, a Youtube channel called Kosinki & created a whole world dedicated to his interests, life and works, called 'Ouvroir', in the virtual world game: Second Life.
Filmography
all 123
Movies 121
Director 75
Writer 19
self 9
Narrator 4
Producer 3
TV Shows 2
Ten Lives of a Cat: A Film about Chris Marker (2023)
The Invention of Chris Marker (2020)
Lluvia de jaulas (2019)
The Zone (2017)
La Jétee (2013)
Life and Freaky Times of Uncle Luke (2012)
20 Little Films (2012)
In Chris Marker's Studio (2011)
iDead (2011)
Agnès Varda: From Here to There (2011)
Imagine (2011)
Stopover in Dubai (2011)
ROYAL POLKA.mov (2011)
Tempo Risoluto (2011)
Overnight (2011)
Ouvroir the Movie (2010)
La Traversée du désir (2009)
The Morning After (2008)
Henchman Glance (2008)
Pictures at an Exhibition (2008)
Metrotopia (2008)
Guillaume Movie (2008)
A Year of TV Seen by Guillaume (2007)
Leila Attacks (2007)
The Andrei Tarkovsky Companion (2007)
The Case of the Grinning Cat (2004)
Green Vinyl (2004)
Remembrance of Things to Come (2001)
A Mayor in Kosovo (2000)
Eclipse (1999)
One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich (1999)
Level Five (1997)
Immemory (1997)
Twelve Monkeys (1995)
Blue Helmet (1995)
Silent Movie (Edit 2) (1995)
Bullfight in Okinawa (1994)
Owl Gets in Your Eyes (1994)
Tchaïka (1994)
Petite Ceinture (1994)
Three Haiku Videos (1994)
Prime Time in the Camps (1993)
Slon Tango (1993)
The Last Bolshevik (1993)
Theory of Sets (1991)
Berliner Ballade (1990)
An Owl Is an Owl Is an Owl (1990)
Zoo Piece (1990)
Berlin 1990 (1990)
Rush - Voyage à Moscou (1990)
Détour Ceausescu (1990)
Cat Listening to Music (1990)
Zapping Zone (1990)
The Owl's Legacy (1989)
Tokyo Days (1988)
Havre (1986)
Mémoires pour Simone (1986)
Matta '85 (1985)
A. K. (1985)
Tokyo-Ga (1985)
From Chris to Christo (1985)
2084: Video Clip for the Trade Unions' Reflection and Pleasure (1984)
2084 (1984)
Sans Soleil (1983)
Junkopia (1981)
The Battle of Chile: Part III (1979)
When the Century Took Shape (War and Revolution) (1978)
May Days (1978)
A Grin Without a Cat (1977)
The Spiral (1976)
The Battle of Chile: Part II (1976)
The Battle of Chile: Part I (1975)
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Singer (1974)
Les Deux mémoires (1974)
The Embassy (1973)
You Speak of Chile: What Allende Said (1973)
We Maintain It Is Possible (1973)
Kashima Paradise (1973)
The Train Rolls On (1973)
Three Cheers for the Whale (1972)
You Speak of Paris: Maspero. Words Have Meaning (1971)
You Speak of Prague: The Second Trial of Artur London (1971)
Congo Oyé (We Have Come Back) (1971)
Cuba: Battle of the 10,000,000 (1971)
Report on Brazil: Carlos Marighella (1970)
The Confession (1970)
Jour de tournage (1969)
Class of Struggle (1969)
Report on Brazil: Torture (1969)
The Sixth Side of the Pentagon (1968)
Cinétracts (1968)
Be Seeing You (1968)
Far from Vietnam (1967)
If I Had Four Dromedaries (1966)
Rotterdam-Europoort (1966)
The Forbidden Volcano (1966)
The Koumiko Mystery (1965)
The Heat of a Thousand Suns (1965)
From a Distant Gaze (1964)
Valparaiso (1964)
The Lovely Month of May (1963)
Playtime in Paris (1962)
Lumière Award to Chris Marker (1962)
La Jetée (1962)
¡Cuba Sí! (1961)
Description of a Struggle (1960)
America as Seen by a Frenchman (1960)
The Astronauts (1959)
Les hommes de la baleine (1958)
The Sea and the Days (1958)
Des Hommes Dans Le Ciel (1958)
Broadway by Light (1958)
Letter from Siberia (1957)
The Mystery of Workshop 15 (1957)
Django Reinhardt (1957)
All the World's Memory (1956)
Sunday in Peking (1956)
Night and Fog (1956)
Statues Also Die (1953)
Olympia 52 (1952)
Concours de rêve : La Clé des songes (1950)
Democracy or city of dreams
2073
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Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday1921-07-29
Deathday2012-07-29 (91 years old)
Birth NameChristian Hippolyte François Georges Bouche-Villeneuve
Birth PlaceNeuilly-sur-Seine, France
CitizenshipsFrance
Also Known As크리스 마르케, Крис Маркер, クリス・マルケル, Christian Bouche-Villeneuve, Christian François Bouche-Villeneuve, Jacopo Berenzini, Michel Krasna, Sandor Krasna, Hayao Yamaneko, Kosinki, 크리스 마커, Guillaume-en-Égypte
AwardsSutherland Trophy, Louis Delluc Prize, César Award for Best short documentary
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