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Chris Marker (French:; 29 July 1921 – 29 July 2012) was a French writer, photographer, documentary film director, multimedia artist and film essayist. His best known films are La Jetée (1962), A Grin Without a Cat (1977) and Sans Soleil (1983).
Chris Marker was born on 29 July 1921 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France. He was a writer and director, known for 12 Monkeys (1995), Sans Soleil (1983) and Third Side of the Coin (1960). He died on 29 July 2012 in Paris, France.
Chris Marker was so much more than just a ‘documentary filmmaker’. As an exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery and film programmes at the Ciné Lumière and the Barbican prove, he was a photographer, essayist, activist, cartoonist and interactive pioneer.
Jul 31, 2012 · Chris Marker, the enigmatic writer, photographer, filmmaker and multimedia artist who pioneered the flexible hybrid form known as the essay film, died on Sunday in Paris. He was 91. His...
Jul 30, 2012 · Marker was a master of film editing—the part of the filmmaking process that Jean-Luc Godard, another master editor and memory-artist, defined as holding past, present, and future in...
Chris Marker (French: [maʁkɛʁ]; 29 July 1921 – 29 July 2012) was a French writer, photographer, documentary film director, multimedia artist and film essayist. His best known films are La Jetée (1962), A Grin Without a Cat (1977) and Sans Soleil (1983).
Jul 29, 2021 · C hris Marker, the photographer, writer, multimedia artist, and director of the haunting time-travel classic La Jetée (1963), was born Christian François Bouche-Villeneuve on July 29, 1921.
