Chris Marker

Sans Soleil

Sans Soleil

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. Sans Soleil is his mind-bending free-form travelogue that journeys from Africa to Japan.

Film Info

  • France
  • 1983
  • 103 minutes
  • Color
  • 1.66:1
  • French

Available In

Collector's Set

La Jetée/Sans Soleil

La Jetée/Sans Soleil

Blu-ray Box Set

1 Disc

$31.96

Collector's Set

La Jetée/Sans Soleil

La Jetée/Sans Soleil

DVD Box Set

1 Disc

$31.96

Sans Soleil
Credits
Director
Chris Marker
Conception and editing
Chris Marker
Mixers
Antoine Bonfanti
Mixers
Paul Bertault
Assistants
Eric Dumage
Assistants
Dominque Gentil
Assistants
Arthur Cloquet
Assistant director
Pierre Camus
Still photography
Martin Boschet
Still photography
Roger Grange
Special effects
Hayao Yamaneko
Sandor Krasna's letters read by (English version)
Alexandra Stewart
Sandor Krasna's letters read by (French version)
Florence Delay

Current

Chris Marker: Memory’s Apostle
Chris Marker: Memory’s Apostle
La 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, vid…

By Catherine Lupton

The Deaths and Rebirths of Chris Marker’s CD-ROM Immemory
The Deaths and Rebirths of Chris Marker’s CD-ROM Immemory

One of the French auteur’s most immersive art projects finds itself on the brink of format obsolescence, as Acrobat plans to phase out Flash software at the end of the year.

By Isabel Ochoa Gold

Sofia Bohdanowicz and Deragh Campbell’s Top 10
Sofia Bohdanowicz and Deragh Campbell’s Top 10

The directors of MS Slavic 7 pick a selection of favorite films that highlight what they find mysterious and exciting about the cinematic art form.

Kazu Kibuishi’s Top 10
Kazu Kibuishi’s Top 10

Artist Kazu Kibuishi is the author and illustrator of the graphic novel series Amulet, as well as the creator and editor of the anthology Flight and the Web comic Copper.

Chris Marker’s Junkopia
Chris Marker’s Junkopia
This week we lost one of the great artists of the past century, Chris Marker. Though best known for his 1962 La Jetée, a science-fiction epic in miniature told through black-and-white still photographs, and his 1983 Sans Soleil, a personal travelog…
Chris Marker’s Second Life

Features

Chris Marker’s Second Life

It 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 the playful French filmmaker and multimedia artist’s kitty—and alter ego—Guillaume-en-Egypt a trailblaz