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Chris Marker
Formative writings by French avant-garde filmmaker Chris Marker
It is hard to imagine French cinema without La Jetee (1962), the time-travel short feature by the reclusive French filmmaker Christian Francois…
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Nora M. Alter
Presents an English-language study of Chris Marker, who stands among the most influential filmmakers of the postwar era. This study includes interviews with the director and investigates the core themes…
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Having spearheaded the bourgeoning Nouvelle Vague scene in the late 1950s and developed a distinctive style involving still images, Chris Marker stands among the most influential filmmakers of the postwar…
Sarah Cooper
Chris Marker’s importance has been recognized by critics from his earliest films onwards. Marker explores the relation between fact and fiction in memory as in documentary, in words and in…
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Images and script (in both French and English) from one of the greatest experimental films ever made by a master of the form.
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Catherine Lupton
Chris Marker is one of the most extraordinary and influential film-makers. This title traces the development and transformation of Marker’s work from the late 1940s, when he began to work…
Gavin Keeney
Dossier Chris Marker: The Suffering Image is a study of a late-modern chiasmus, impersonal-personal agency, as it comes to expression in the works of French artist and filmmaker, Chris Marker…
Exhibition Catalogue, a comprehensive document of the exhibition and includes essays by the co-curators.
Chris H Marker
Presents 200 black-and-white photographs from Chris Marker’s personal archives. This work also contains a series of photographs documenting political protests Marker has witnessed, including the march on the Pentagon in…
Laure Astourian
The Ethnographic Optic traces the surprising role of ethnography in French cinema in the 1960s and examines its place in several New Wave fictions and cinema verite documentaries during the…
Chris Boucher
The Doctor and Leela arrive on the planet Kaldor, where they find a society dependent on benign and obedient robots.
An unabridged reading of an original adventure featuring the Fourth Doctor, as played by Tom Baker, and his companion Leela. The Doctor and Leela arrive on the planet Kaldor, where…