Chris Marker Movies

A still, highly overexposed shot of a car bridge and the river below. A cinematic haiku by Chris Marker.

Cat film by Chris Marker

Chris Marker films a cat reacting to the sound of a piano playing.

Jean Ravel's A Distant Gaze (D'un lointain regard) is a 12-minute observance of people on the streets backed by Michel Legrand music.

A follow-up to the documentary Be Seeing You (À bientôt, j'espère), made by a filmmaking collective in cooperation with the...

A documentary film about occupational diseases shot in 1957 at the Francolor factory in Oissel. It takes the form of a scientific investigation to...

A subway jigsaw of Marker's work: PASSENGERS.

In a small fishermen's village in the Azores, an enormous whale is being jointed, carved and stocked. Once this task is over, the whalers ready...

A cinematic haiku by Chris Marker.

"There’s just no other way to say this: Chris Marker has built a museum in the sky of Second Life. That’s right, Second Life—the...

Video on the mass media response to the bardo-traversing of Steve Jobs. Long live the archive and the archivist.

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

As the perspective shifts from display to imprisonment, a montage of images from a zoo takes on increasing significance and pathos.

A young man, who served as a peacekeeper in Bosnia and Herzegovina for a few months during the war, recounts his experiences. Throughout the film, we...

A portrait of the Chilean artist Roberto Matta leading Marker on a wise and funny private guided tour of his solo exhibition at the Pompidou Center.

A cinematic haiku by Chris Marker.

A wonderful tribute to the great Simone Signoret by Chris Marker. Rare documentary, made by movie clips and narration, with many lines Simone...

A collection of three short 'haiku videos' by Chris Marker. The first haiku, 'Yanka / Tchaika', shows the river Seine passing under a bridge. A bird...

In the fall of 1985, Christo "packed" the Pont Neuf. In the space of a week, enthusiasts, critics and curious people drastically change the...