Chris Marker

Directing · Born 1921-07-29 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France

Biography

Christian François Bouche-Villeneuve, better known as Chris Marker (France, 29 July 1921 – 29 July 2012), was a French writer, poet, activist, critic, photographer, traveler, journalist, film essayist, multimedia artist, and documentary filmmaker. He began his career as part of the French Rive Gauche group—parallel to but distinct from the Nouvelle Vague—with which he would later share certain themes and collaborators. Marker is credited with developing the subjective documentary and is considered a pioneer of collective cinema in France. His films are known for their poetic, essayistic, and often experimental qualities, blending a reflective voice with a fascination for memory, art, war, politics, culture, and nature. Over six decades of work, he observed the world with meticulous…

Filmography

• May Days as Self
• Sans Soleil as Self (uncredited)
• Agnès Varda: From Here to There as Self
• One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich as Self (voice) (uncredited)
• A. K. as Self - Narrator (voice)
• Tokyo-Ga as Self (uncredited)
• The Beaches of Agnès as Self (archive footage)
• In Chris Marker's Studio as Self
• La Traversée du désir as Self
• Tokyo Days as Self (voice) (uncredited)