Chris Marker Movies

  • 1958
    Des Hommes Dans Le Ciel

    Des Hommes Dans Le Ciel

    Des Hommes Dans Le Ciel

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    Des Hommes Dans Le Ciel
  • 1965
    The Heat of a Thousand Suns

    The Heat of a Thousand Suns

    The Heat of a Thousand Suns

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    A young man from the far future, bored by his surroundings, blasts off into space with only his cat and some robots for company. On a distant planet...

    The Heat of a Thousand Suns
  • 1994
    Owl Gets in Your Eyes

    Owl Gets in Your Eyes

    Owl Gets in Your Eyes

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    Part of Chris Marker’s Three Video Haikus series, Owl Gets in Your Eyes observes owls and their young in quiet close-up, capturing their...

    Owl Gets in Your Eyes
  • 1978
    When the Century Took Shape (War and Revolution)

    When the Century Took Shape (War and Revolution)

    When the Century Took Shape (War and Revolution)

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    In 1978, just after Le fond de l'Air Est Rouge, which mercilessly analyzed the previous ten years of the revolutionary left's momentum until its...

    When the Century Took Shape (War and Revolution)
  • 2001
    Remembrance of Things to Come

    Remembrance of Things to Come

    Remembrance of Things to Come

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    A personal history of France, told through photos by French photographer Denise Bellon.

    Remembrance of Things to Come
  • 1959
    The Astronauts

    The Astronauts

    The Astronauts

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    An inventor builds a homemade spacecraft, and uses it to have various adventures, including peeping at women, visiting ‘human’ planets,...

    The Astronauts
  • 1974
    The Loneliness of the Long Distance Singer

    The Loneliness of the Long Distance Singer

    The Loneliness of the Long Distance Singer

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    This documentary chronicles an Yves Montand concert for Chilean refugees in France.

    The Loneliness of the Long Distance Singer
  • 1966
    If I Had Four Dromedaries

    If I Had Four Dromedaries

    If I Had Four Dromedaries

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    Composed entirely of still photographs taken by Chris Marker across 26 countries, If I Had Four Dromedaries presents a dialogue between three voices...

    If I Had Four Dromedaries
  • 1966
    The Forbidden Volcano

    The Forbidden Volcano

    The Forbidden Volcano

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    Set in Zaire, the film follows an expedition exploring the crater of the Niragongo volcano of the Virunga chain, whose eruptions are known for their...

    The Forbidden Volcano
  • 1968
    Cinétracts

    Cinétracts

    Cinétracts

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    A series of 43 documentary shorts, directed (without credit) by several famous French filmmakers and each running between two and four minutes. Each...

    Cinétracts
  • 1984
    2084: Video Clip for the Trade Unions' Reflection and Pleasure

    2084: Video Clip for the Trade Unions' Reflection and Pleasure

    2084: Video Clip for the Trade Unions' Reflection and Pleasure

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    Made for the centenary of France’s trade union laws, Chris Marker’s 2084 imagines a future in which a computer looks back on the labor...

    2084: Video Clip for the Trade Unions' Reflection and Pleasure
  • 1993
    Slon Tango

    Slon Tango

    Slon Tango

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    An oddly rhythmic and balletic tape emerges from the juxtaposition of an elephant lumbering around his enclosure at the zoo and elegant music by...

    Slon Tango
  • 1965
    The Koumiko Mystery

    The Koumiko Mystery

    The Koumiko Mystery

    6.71965HD

    Filmed during the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, Chris Marker’s The Koumiko Mystery follows Koumiko Muraoka, a young Japanese woman born in Manchuria and...

    The Koumiko Mystery
  • 1990
    Zoo Piece

    Zoo Piece

    Zoo Piece

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    A quietly observed montage of animals in captivity—seals, leopards, gorillas, wolves, monkeys, ostriches, and others—Zoo Piece shifts...

    Zoo Piece
  • 1991
    Theory of Sets

    Theory of Sets

    Theory of Sets

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    Made entirely on Roger Wagner's HyperStudio software, Chris Marker explores set theory, using Noah's Ark as an example.

    Theory of Sets
  • 1994
    The Last Bolshevik

    The Last Bolshevik

    The Last Bolshevik

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    A documentary on Soviet filmmaker Aleksandr Medvedkin, examining his tumultuous career, the rediscovery of his masterpiece Happiness, and Russia's...

    The Last Bolshevik
  • 1958
    Broadway by Light

    Broadway by Light

    Broadway by Light

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    An experimental meditation on Times Square's marquees and iconic advertising that captures the concurrently seedy and dazzling aspects of New York's...

    Broadway by Light
  • 2013
    La Jétee

    La Jétee

    La Jétee

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    A radical re-imagining of French auteur Chris Marker's masterpiece.

    La Jétee
  • 1993
    Prime Time in the Camps

    Prime Time in the Camps

    Prime Time in the Camps

    5.61993HD

    Prime Time in the Camps is one of a series of Chris Marker’s short films on the war in Yugoslavia. Featuring behind-the-scenes footage of the...

    Prime Time in the Camps
  • 2007
    Leila Attacks

    Leila Attacks

    Leila Attacks

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    Chris Marker's cat and rat.

    Leila Attacks