Chris Marker Movies

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

Chris Marker's cat and rat.

A documentary look at striking workers in a textile plant in Besançon, France, centering on interviews with workers about their motivations...

On September the 4th, 1969, a group of Brazilian revolutionaries kidnap the U.S. ambassador. In exchange for his release, they demand that the...

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

Documentary about economic development in Cuba, particularly the effort to boost output of sugar cane. This film is made from a compilation of...

On November the 4th 1969, Carlos Marighella is caught in an ambush and killed by the bullets of 80 policemen armed with revolvers and machine guns....

Two friends (and legendary French New Wave filmmakers) meet in real and virtual worlds.

A cinematic haiku by Chris Marker.

A chronicle of the evolution of the Cuban Revolution, ending with the Bay of Pigs incident and including two interviews with Fidel Castro.

In a small fishermen's village in the Azores, an enormous whale is being jointed, carved and stocked. Once this task is over, the whalers ready...

Salvador Allende interviewed by Régis Debray in 1971.

Jean Ravel's A Distant Gaze (D'un lointain regard) is a 12-minute observance of people on the streets backed by Michel Legrand music.

A cinematic haiku by Chris Marker.

A still, highly overexposed shot of a car bridge and the river below. A cinematic haiku by Chris Marker.

Some months after the fall of the Berlin wall, during the time of federal elections in Germany in 1990, Chris Marker shot this passionate...

In a port city, a youth plays a computer game that determines the fate of a woman (whose interracial romance is threatened by white punks) and other...

Pictures, collages, well, call'em XPLUGS

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

In 1978, just after Le fond de l'Air Est Rouge, which mercilessly analyzed the previous ten years of the revolutionary left's momentum until its...