Chris Marker Movies

A desktop documentary about the online afterlife of the late French filmmaker, 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.

Set in Zaire, the film follows an expedition exploring the crater of the Niragongo volcano of the Virunga chain, whose eruptions are known for their...

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

Ten years after the death of iconic French filmmaker, Chris Marker. A filmmaker, hoping to rediscover that unique sensibility against the uncertainty...

Made entirely on Roger Wagner's HyperStudio software, Chris Marker explores set theory, using Noah's Ark as an example.

A young man from the far future, bored by his surroundings, blasts off into space with only his cat and some robots for company. On a distant planet...

One of the first filmed portraits of a jazz musician.

Catherine Varlin's 27-minute Playtime in Paris (1962) is almost a practice run for Le joli mai, a sampling that starts in a classroom and then...

A solar eclipse sends Simons from the nuclear-ruined post-war city of Vaken to present-day Toronto.

Prime Time in the Camps is one of a series of Chris Marker’s short films on the war in Yugoslavia. Featuring behind-the-scenes footage of the...

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...

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.

Guzmán’s final installment shifts from covering the actions of Allende’s opponents to those who battled to revive & promote their...

A short film that shows Boundless, Surreal objects that are juxtaposed with our present World. Cars, Motorways, noise of our modern society; A giant...

An experimental meditation on Times Square's marquees and iconic advertising that captures the concurrently seedy and dazzling aspects of New York's...

Composed entirely of still photographs shot by Marker himself over the course of his restless travel through twenty-six countries, If I Had Four...

A collection of three short 'haiku videos' by Chris Marker. The first haiku, 'Yanka / Tchaika', shows the river Seine passing under a bridge. A bird...

Through photos made by the French photographer Denise Bellon, a personal history of France.

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