6 Movies Directed by Chris Marker

Statues also Die

Statues also Die

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1953-05-01

Languages:

French

Countries:

France

Runtime:

30 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.6 (620 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Chris Marker

Fullplot:

A documentary of black art.

La Jetèe

La Jetèe

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1962-02-16

Languages:

French, German

Countries:

France

Runtime:

28 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

8.4 (19019 Reviews)

Director:

Chris Marker

Fullplot:

Time travel, still images, a past, present and future and the aftermath of World War III. The tale of a man, a slave, sent back and forth, in and out of time, to find a solution to the world's fate. To replenish its decreasing stocks of food, medicine and energies, and in doing so, resulting in a perpetual memory of a lone female, life, death and past events that are recreated on an airports jetèe.

Le joli mai

Le joli mai

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1963-05-01

Languages:

French

Countries:

France

Runtime:

165 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.9 (354 Reviews)

Genres:

Documentary

Cast:

Writer:

Chris Marker

Catherine Varlin

Fullplot:

Chris Marker and Pierre Lhomme's LE JOLI MAI (The Lovely Month of May) is a portrait of Paris and Parisians during May 1962;the first springtime of peace after the ceasefire with Algeria and the first time in 23 years that France was not involved in any war.

Grin Without a Cat

Grin Without a Cat

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1977-11-23

Languages:

French, Spanish, English, German, Japanese, Vietnamese

Countries:

France

Runtime:

240 min

IMDB Ratings:

8.1 (630 Reviews)

Director:

Chris Marker

Genres:

Documentary

Fullplot:

French essay film focusing on global political turmoil in the 1960s and '70s, particularly the rise of the New Left in France and the development of socialist movements in Latin America.

Junkopia

Junkopia

Basic Info:

Languages:

French

Countries:

France

Runtime:

6 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (230 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Chris Marker

Fullplot:

A short film that shows Boundless, Surreal objects that are juxtaposed with our present World. Cars, Motorways, noise of our modern society; A giant city in the distance - all that shrouds this lonely and forgotten island of Dreams. Filmed at the Emeryville Mudflats near San Francisco.

Sans Soleil

Sans Soleil

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1983-03-02

Languages:

French, Japanese, English

Countries:

France

Runtime:

100 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

8.2 (5994 Reviews)

Director:

Chris Marker

Genres:

Documentary

Fullplot:

"He wrote me...." A woman narrates the thoughts of a world traveler, meditations on time and memory expressed in words and images from places as far-flung as Japan, Guinea-Bissau, Iceland, and San Francisco.

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