Chris Marker (born 29 July 1921) is a French writer, photographer, film director, multimedia artist and documentary maker.
His best known films are La Jetée (1962), A Grin Without a Cat (1977), Sans Soleil (1983) and AK (1985), a documentary on the Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa.
He was born Christian François Bouche-Villeneuve, in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France, July 29, 1921. (The 1949 edition of Le Cœur Net specifi...
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Chris Marker (born 29 July 1921) is a French writer, photographer, film director, multimedia artist and documentary maker.
His best known films are La Jetée (1962), A Grin Without a Cat (1977), Sans Soleil (1983) and AK (1985), a documentary on the Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa.
He was born Christian François Bouche-Villeneuve, in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France, July 29, 1921. (The 1949 edition of Le Cœur Net specifies his birthday as July 22.) In World War II he joined the Maquis (FTP). After the war he began to write and make films. He traveled to many socialist countries and documented what he saw in films and books. Les statues meurent aussi (1953) which he codirected with Alain Resnais was one of the first anticolonial films. Anatole Dauman produced his earliest films of Chris Marker and two more later, Sunday in Peking and Letter from Siberia.
He became known internationally for the short film La Jetée (1962). It tells of a post-nuclear war...
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