Movies: Chris Marker

  • 1994
    Three Haiku Videos

    Three Haiku Videos (1994)

    Three Haiku Videos

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    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 flight stays motionless in the air. The second haiku, 'Owl Gets in Your Eyes', shows Catherine B...

    Three Haiku Videos
  • 1961
    ¡Cuba Sí!

    ¡Cuba Sí! (1961)

    ¡Cuba Sí!

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    A chronicle of the evolution of the Cuban Revolution, ending with the Bay of Pigs incident and including two interviews with Fidel Castro....

    ¡Cuba Sí!
  • 2000
    A Mayor in Kosovo

    A Mayor in Kosovo (2000)

    A Mayor in Kosovo

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    This is where sizzling fire still smoldering in a war which everybody talked a lot and which we rarely had the opportunity to hear the actors. Once removed their image of poor refugees on the roads, the Kosovars have strangely disappeared from the me...

    A Mayor in Kosovo
  • 2011
    In Chris Marker's Studio

    In Chris Marker's Studio (2011)

    In Chris Marker's Studio

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    Two friends (and legendary French New Wave filmmakers) meet in real and virtual worlds....

    In Chris Marker's Studio
  • 1964
    From a Distant Gaze

    From a Distant Gaze (1964)

    From a Distant Gaze

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    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....

    From a Distant Gaze
  • 1993
    Prime Time in the Camps

    Prime Time in the Camps (1993)

    Prime Time in the Camps

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    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 camp’s TV crews in action, with interviews and excerpts from the TV programs, the film captures the importan...

    Prime Time in the Camps
  • 1973
    We Maintain It Is Possible

    We Maintain It Is Possible (1973)

    We Maintain It Is Possible

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    In 1973, after the failure of wage negotiations with the management of the Lip watch factories, the workers went on strike. Marker was responsible for assembling clips from various photographers into one cohesive film....

    We Maintain It Is Possible
  • 1988
    Cat Listening to Music

    Cat Listening to Music (1988)

    Cat Listening to Music

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

    Cat Listening to Music
  • 1968
    Be Seeing You

    Be Seeing You (1968)

    Be Seeing You

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    A documentary look at striking workers in a textile plant in Besançon, France, centering on interviews with workers about their motivations for becoming involved with the union and the struggles of their day to day life....

    Be Seeing You
  • 1999
    Eclipse

    Eclipse (1999)

    Eclipse

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    During the solar eclipse of August 11, 1999, Chris Marker documents the French public looking up to the skies, with many of them wearing eclipse glasses....

    Eclipse
  • 2011
    Stopover in Dubai

    Stopover in Dubai (2011)

    Stopover in Dubai

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    Stopover in Dubai is a chillingly simple – and riveting – found-footage documentary on a reconstructed murder. The original film was produced by the Dubai State Security service, edited from CCTV footage recorded in and around the Dubai hotel where M...

    Stopover in Dubai
  • 1990
    An Owl Is an Owl Is an Owl

    An Owl Is an Owl Is an Owl (1990)

    An Owl Is an Owl Is an Owl

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    From Chris Marker's collection Bestiaire aka Petit Bestiaire (1990), consisting of three video haikus....

    An Owl Is an Owl Is an Owl
  • 2012
    Life and Freaky Times of Uncle Luke

    Life and Freaky Times of Uncle Luke (2012)

    Life and Freaky Times of Uncle Luke

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    A modern Miami adaptation of the 1962 French short film "La Jetee", the film recounts Luke's (Uncle Luke, legendary rapper from the hip-hop group 2 Live Crew) rise to fame as he changes the face of hip-hop and fights for first amendment rights, and l...

    Life and Freaky Times of Uncle Luke
  • 1973
    Kashima Paradise

    Kashima Paradise (1973)

    Kashima Paradise

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    This 1973 French documentary explores the conflict between modern values and material comforts in Japan and the more traditional obligations (giri) and culture which are still the real backbone of the society. Among the topics touched on are the Osak...

    Kashima Paradise
  • 1976
    The Spiral

    The Spiral (1976)

    The Spiral

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    Documentary on the events provoked by the systematic attack of imperialism on the Popular Unity government in Chile, presided by Salvador Allende....

    The Spiral
  • 1972
    Three Cheers for the Whale

    Three Cheers for the Whale (1972)

    Three Cheers for the Whale

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    Three Cheers for the Whale chronicles the history of mankind’s relationship with the largest and most majestic of marine mammals, and graphically exposes their slaughter by the fishing industry....

    Three Cheers for the Whale
  • 1993
    Slon Tango

    Slon Tango (1993)

    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 Stravinsky....

    Slon Tango
  • 1990
    Berlin 1990

    Berlin 1990 (1990)

    Berlin 1990

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    Berlin 1990 travels the streets and the political landscape of the recently re-unified Berlin. In the tumultuous atmosphere of 1990, we watch Berliners walk through check points manned by soldiers, past street vendors selling sausages and "actual" pi...

    Berlin 1990
  • 2013
    La Jétee

    La Jétee (2013)

    La Jétee

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

    La Jétee
  • 2007
    Leila Attacks

    Leila Attacks (2007)

    Leila Attacks

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    Chris Marker's cat and rat....

    Leila Attacks