Chris Marker Movies

  • 2006
    The Case of the Grinning Cat

    The Case of the Grinning Cat

    The Case of the Grinning Cat

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    Paris 2002. Yellow cats appear on the walls. Chris Marker is looking for these mysterious cats and captures with his camera the political and...

    The Case of the Grinning Cat
  • 1966
    If I Had Four Dromedaries

    If I Had Four Dromedaries

    If I Had Four Dromedaries

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    Composed entirely of still photographs shot by Marker himself over the course of his restless travel through twenty-six countries, If I Had Four...

    If I Had Four Dromedaries
  • 2015
    Chris Marker: Never Explain, Never Complain

    Chris Marker: Never Explain, Never Complain

    Chris Marker: Never Explain, Never Complain

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    Posthumous portrait of Chris Marker, the elusive French filmmaker- essayist, traveller, photographer and cat-lover. Two filmmakers, Jean-Marie Barbe...

    Chris Marker: Never Explain, Never Complain
  • 1957
    Django Reinhardt

    Django Reinhardt

    Django Reinhardt

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    One of the first filmed portraits of a jazz musician.

    Django Reinhardt
  • 1965
    The Koumiko Mystery

    The Koumiko Mystery

    The Koumiko Mystery

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    While filming the Olympics, a filmmaker encounters a Japanese girl. Manchurian born and French educated, she's an intriguing anomaly. He films her...

    The Koumiko Mystery
  • 1962
    Playtime in Paris

    Playtime in Paris

    Playtime in Paris

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    Catherine Varlin's 27-minute Playtime in Paris (1962) is almost a practice run for Le joli mai, a sampling that starts in a classroom and then...

    Playtime in Paris
  • 2004
    Green Vinyl

    Green Vinyl

    Green Vinyl

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    A mother gives her daughter a box full of old, coloured little vinyl records. The daughter may listen to them, but she should never, ever, play the...

    Green Vinyl
  • 1968
    Cinétracts

    Cinétracts

    Cinétracts

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    A series of 43 documentary shorts, directed (without credit) by several famous French filmmakers and each running between two and four minutes. Each...

    Cinétracts
  • 2011
    iDead

    iDead

    iDead

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    Video on the mass media response to the bardo-traversing of Steve Jobs. Long live the archive and the archivist.

    iDead
  • 1984
    2084: Video Clip for the Trade Unions' Reflection and Pleasure

    2084: Video Clip for the Trade Unions' Reflection and Pleasure

    2084: Video Clip for the Trade Unions' Reflection and Pleasure

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    Filmed on the 100th anniversary of the labour union laws in France, the quasi-science fiction film is set in 2084. A robot moderator helps us look...

    2084: Video Clip for the Trade Unions' Reflection and Pleasure
  • 1974
    Les Deux mémoires

    Les Deux mémoires

    Les Deux mémoires

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    The two memories

    Les Deux mémoires
  • 2012
    Kino

    Kino

    Kino

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    Viennale-Trailer 2012 - 50 Years of Viennale Anniversary Trailer

    Kino
  • 1971
    You Speak of Paris: Maspero. Words Have Meaning

    You Speak of Paris: Maspero. Words Have Meaning

    You Speak of Paris: Maspero. Words Have Meaning

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    An affectionate portrait of the left-wing publisher and bookshop owner François Maspero, who was a contributor to Far From Vietnam and would...

    You Speak of Paris: Maspero. Words Have Meaning
  • 2020
    The Invention of Chris Marker

    The Invention of Chris Marker

    The Invention of Chris Marker

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    A desktop documentary about the online afterlife of the late French filmmaker, Chris Marker.

    The Invention of Chris Marker
  • 1960
    America as Seen by a Frenchman

    America as Seen by a Frenchman

    America as Seen by a Frenchman

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    At the end of the 1950s, French documentarian François Reichenbach spent eighteen months traveling the United States, documenting its diverse...

    America as Seen by a Frenchman
  • 1973
    The Embassy

    The Embassy

    The Embassy

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    After a military coup d'état, political dissidents seek refuge in a foreign embassy. Over the next few days, they are joined by more and more...

    The Embassy
  • 1978
    May Days

    May Days

    May Days

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    Filmmaker William Klein documents the Paris student riots that occurred in May of 1968.

    May Days
  • 2013
    La Jétee

    La Jétee

    La Jétee

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

    La Jétee
  • 1958
    Des Hommes Dans Le Ciel

    Des Hommes Dans Le Ciel

    Des Hommes Dans Le Ciel

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    Des Hommes Dans Le Ciel
  • 2019
    Lluvia de jaulas

    Lluvia de jaulas

    Lluvia de jaulas

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    Popular neighborhoods that are open-air prisons. Where beauty flirts with violence. The kingdom of the insubordinate children, veterans of the lead....

    Lluvia de jaulas