Chris Marker

Christian François BoucheVilleneuve also known as Chris Marker France 29 July 1921 29 July 2012 was a French writer poet activist internaut critic photographer traveler journalist film enssayist multimedia artist and documentary maker He began his work as part of the French Rive gauche group parallel but different from the nouvelle vague with which he would later share themes and works He is credited with creating the subjective documentary and is considered a pioneer of collective cinema in France His cinematographic work is known for its poetic sometimes ethereal and videoartlike expression He dedicated himself during sixty years of work to observing with meticulous curiosity with caustic and often amusing irony even with anger the vicissitudes of world history and also of the individual memory art wars politics culture nature etc all this while experimenting with various methods of image manipulation and montage He is also known for the ignorance of his person For years hardly anyone knew what Chris Marker looked like he didnt like being photographed so there were no photos of him It amused him to offer contradictory accounts of his life in the few written interviews he gave The closest you can get to Markers intimate life is in his film career Philippe Dubois once said Chris Marker is in a way the most celebrated of the unknown filmmakers Rather than a Man Without Qualities he is a Man Without Biography says his official website chrismarkerorg He used many pseudonyms too some are Hayao Yamaneko Jacopo Berenzini Kosinki Michel Krasna Sandor Krasna GuillaumeenÉgypte his avatar the best known Chris Marker Some of his most important works are La Jetée 1962 Sans Soleil 1983 Far From Vietnam 1967 A Grin Without a Cat 1977 Level Five 1997 AK 1985 One Day In the Life of Andrei Arsenevitch 1999 He also dabbled in CDROMs with Immemory 1997 has a website called Gorgomancy a Youtube channel called Kosinki created a whole world dedicated to his interests life and works called Ouvroir in the virtual world game Second Life