Biography
Christian François Bouche-Villeneuve, also known as Chris Marker (France: 29 July 1921 - 29 July 2012) was a French writer, poet, activist, internaut, critic, photographer, traveler, journalist, film enssayist, multimedia artist and documentary maker.
He began his work as part of the French Rive gauche group, parallel but different from the nouvelle vague, with which he would later share themes and works. He is credited with creating the subjective documentary and is considered a pioneer of collective cinema in France. His cinematographic work is known for its poetic, sometimes ethereal, and video-art-like expression. He dedicated himself, during sixty years of work, to observing, with meticulous curiosity, with caustic and often amusing irony, even with anger, the vicissitudes of world history and also of the individual (memory, art, wars, politics, culture, nature, etc), all this while experimenting with various methods of image manipulation and montage.
He is also known for the ignorance of his person. For years, hardly anyone knew what Chris Marker looked like, he didn't like being photographed, so there were no photos of him. It amused him to offer contradictory accounts of his life in the few written interviews he gave. The closest you can get to Marker's intimate life is in his film career. Philippe Dubois once said: "Chris Marker is, in a way, the most celebrated of the unknown filmmakers". "Rather than a Man Without Qualities, he is a Man Without Biography," says his official website: chrismarker.org.
He used many pseudonyms too, some are Hayao Yamaneko, Jacopo Berenzini, Kosinki, Michel Krasna, Sandor Krasna, Guillaume-en-Égypte (his avatar) & the best known Chris Marker.
Some of his most important works are La Jetée (1962), Sans Soleil (1983), Far From Vietnam (1967), A Grin Without a Cat (1977), Level Five (1997), A.K. (1985) & One Day In the Life of Andrei Arsenevitch (1999). He also dabbled in CD-ROMs with Immemory (1997), has a website called Gorgomancy, a Youtube channel called Kosinki & created a whole world dedicated to his interests, life and works, called 'Ouvroir', in the virtual world game: Second Life.
Filmography
all 122
Movies 120
Director 68
Writer 15
self 15
Producer 5
Narrator 4
TV Shows 2
Ten Lives of a Cat: A Film about Chris Marker (2023)
The Invention of Chris Marker (2020)
The Zone (2017)
La Jétee (2013)
Kino (2012)
20 Little Films (2012)
iDead (2011)
Imagine (2011)
Stopover in Dubai (2011)
ROYAL POLKA.mov (2011)
Tempo Risoluto (2011)
Overnight (2011)
Ouvroir the Movie (2010)
The Beaches of Agnès (2008)
The Morning After (2008)
Henchman Glance (2008)
Metrotopia (2008)
Guillaume Movie (2008)
A Year of TV Seen by Guillaume (2007)
Leila Attacks (2007)
Green Vinyl (2004)
A Mayor in Kosovo (2000)
Eclipse (1999)
Level Five (1997)
Immemory (1997)
Twelve Monkeys (1995)
Blue Helmet (1995)
Bullfight in Okinawa (1994)
Petite Ceinture (1994)
Tchaïka (1994)
Three Haiku Videos (1994)
Slon Tango (1993)
The Last Bolshevik (1993)
Theory of Sets (1991)
Berliner Ballade (1990)
Zoo Piece (1990)
Berlin 1990 (1990)
Rush - Voyage à Moscou (1990)
Détour Ceausescu (1990)
Zapping Zone (1990)
The Owl's Legacy (1989)
Havre (1986)
Mémoires pour Simone (1986)
Matta '85 (1985)
A. K. (1985)
Sans Soleil (1983)
Junkopia (1981)
The Battle of Chile: Part III (1979)
A Grin Without a Cat (1977)
The Spiral (1976)
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Singer (1974)
The Embassy (1973)
Kashima Paradise (1973)
The Train Rolls On (1973)
The Confession (1970)
Jour de tournage (1969)
Class of Struggle (1969)
Cinétracts (1968)
Be Seeing You (1968)
Far from Vietnam (1967)
The Koumiko Mystery (1965)
From a Distant Gaze (1964)
Valparaiso (1964)
La Jetée (1962)
¡Cuba Sí! (1961)
Description of a Struggle (1960)
Night and Fog (1959)
The Astronauts (1959)
Letter from Siberia (1957)
Sunday in Peking (1956)
Statues Also Die (1953)
Olympia 52 (1952)
Concours de rêve : La Clé des songes (1950)
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Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday1921-07-29
Deathday2012-07-29 (91 years old)
Birth NameChristian Hippolyte François Georges Bouche-Villeneuve
Birth PlaceNeuilly-sur-Seine, France
CitizenshipsFrance
Also Known As크리스 마르케, Крис Маркер, クリス・マルケル, Christian Bouche-Villeneuve, Christian François Bouche-Villeneuve, Jacopo Berenzini, Michel Krasna, Sandor Krasna, Hayao Yamaneko, Kosinki, Guillaume-en-Égypte
AwardsSutherland Trophy, Louis Delluc Prize, César Award for Best Documentary Short Film
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