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A quick Chris Marker round-up
Pictures at an Exhibition (2008) Tour through a simple 3D computer gallery, stopping to view each of Marker’s mash-up portraits, some of which I’ve seen before in Immemory. Posted on Marker’s youtube...
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¡Cuba SÃ! (1961, Chris Marker)
As soon as Castro took over after the communist revolution, Marker went to document the experience, producing a jubilant propaganda film in the style of his recent travel essay films. Not sure if he...
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Final Shorts Roundup for 2014
Incoherence (1994, Bong Joon-ho) Bong’s half-hour student short has been on my laptop for ages, and since I’d just watched Coherence, I couldn’t resist pairing these. I’m guessing it’s closer in tone...
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It For Others (2013, Duncan Campbell)
“This is a film about objects. It refers to another film about objects.” “Negritude is an anti-racist racism. It is memory and imagination.” We used to have this bowl! “Western countries routinely deny...
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Chris Marker shorts 2015
Watched a couple new Marker-related shorts, and rewatched some older ones in shiny new copies. – Sunday in Peking (1956) in lovely high definition – Letter from Siberia (1957) Forgot how amazing this...
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The Confession (1970, Costa-Gavras)
Same director, star, writer, editor, cameraman as Z. New still photographer Chris Marker and assistant director Alain Corneau. Instead of communists being attacked by the fascists in charge, this time...
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Cinétracts and other Chris Marker shorts
Cinétracts (1968) I watched a collection containing roughly half of the Cinetracts, an anonymously-directed series of two-to-five-minute shorts. The first few seemed to be protest-photo montages, and...
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Far From Vietnam (1967)
Piecemeal protest doc with surprisingly great location footage and interesting scenes, each one a bit too loud and going on for too long. The pieces are mostly unsigned, but I believe Chris Marker put...
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Inventory: Chris Marker
Ever since I first watched Sans Soleil on VHS (probably by recommendation of John at Videodrome) it’s been one of my very favorite movies. I’d previously seen La Jetee on one of those late-90’s shorts...
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Summer 2018 Shorts
Love’s Refrain (2016, Paul Clipson) Measured zooms and pans through textures of nature, always overlapping and dissolving, set to an ambient groove with a steady beat. As the music gets blurrier and...
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