Chris Marker’s Second Life
May 13, 2009It doesn’t really come as a surprise that Chris Marker is a devoted inhabitant of the virtual world Second Life. After all, one could call...
Synopsis
Chris Marker, filmmaker, poet, novelist, photographer, editor, and now videographer and digital multimedia artist, has been challenging moviegoers, philosophers, and himself for years with his complex queries about time, memory, and the rapid advancement of life on this planet. Marker’s La Jetée is one of the most influential, radical science-fiction films ever made, a tale of time travel told in still images.
Cast
| The Woman | Hélène Chatelain |
| The Man | Davos Hanich |
| Jacques Ledoux |
Credits
| Director | Chris Marker |
| Screenplay | Chris Marker |
| Producer | Anatole Dauman |
| Music | Trevor Duncan |
| Editing | Jean Ravel |
Disc Features
GUILLAUME-APPROVED EDITION
- New, restored high-definition digital transfers of both La Jetée and Sans Soleil, approved by director Chris Marker
- New video interview with filmmaker Jean-Pierre Gorin
- Chris on Chris, a video piece on Marker by filmmaker and critic Chris Darke
- Two excerpts from the French TV series Court-circuit (le magazine), directed by Luc Lagier: the first, a look at David Bowie’s music video for “Jump They Say,” inspired by La Jetée; the second, an analysis of Hitchcock’s Vertigo and its influences on Marker
- Both films presented in two versions: English and French with English subtitles
- New and improved English subtitle translations
From the Current
La Jetée: Unchained Melody
by Jun 25, 2007However you define Chris Marker's 1963 short La Jetée—philosophical fiction, genre exercise, treatise on cinematic time—one fact is unavoidable: it resembles few other films. In fact, La Jetée does not define itself as a film at all—its credits identify it as “un photo-roman
Chris Marker: Memory’s Apostle
by Jun 25, 2007La Jetée (1963) and Sans Soleil (1983) made a tidy twenty years apart, are the twin peaks of Chris Marker’s creative achievements and his best-loved and most widely seen films. But who is Chris Marker? Writer, photographer, editor, filmmaker, videographer, and digital multimedia artist...
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