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Chris Marker (French:; 29 July 1921 – 29 July 2012) was a French writer, photographer, documentary film director, multimedia artist and film essayist. His best known films are La Jetée (1962), A Grin Without a Cat (1977) and Sans Soleil (1983).
- 29 July 2012 (aged 91), Paris, France
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- Film director, photographer, journalist, multimedia artist
Apr 15, 2014 · Chris Marker was a phantom, an escape artist, a shapeshifter. He told friends he came from Ulan Bator, Mongolia. Born in 1921 in a pleasant Parisian suburb, Christian-François Bouche-Villeneuve ...
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Jul 31, 2012 · Chris Marker, the enigmatic writer, photographer, filmmaker and multimedia artist who pioneered the flexible hybrid form known as the essay film, died on Sunday in Paris. He was 91.
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Jul 29, 2021 · Chris Marker at 100. C hris Marker, the photographer, writer, multimedia artist, and director of the haunting time-travel classic La Jetée (1963), was born Christian François Bouche-Villeneuve on July 29, 1921. The Filmoteca de Catalunya in Barcelona is celebrating the centenary with an exhibition (on view through September 30) and a film ...
Wikipedia entry. Introduction. Chris Marker (French: [maʁkɛʁ]; 29 July 1921 – 29 July 2012) was a French writer, photographer, documentary film director, multimedia artist and film essayist. His best known films are La Jetée (1962), A Grin Without a Cat (1977) and Sans Soleil (1983). Marker is usually associated with the Left Bank subset ...
Chris Marker. Writer: 12 Monkeys. Chris Marker was born on 29 July 1921 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France. He was a writer and director, known for 12 Monkeys (1995), Sans Soleil (1983) and Third Side of the Coin (1960).
Jul 30, 2012 · Chris Marker obituary. Experimental French director acclaimed for his post-apocalyptic film La Jetée. Ronald Bergan. Mon 30 Jul 2012 07.57 EDT. The essay film, a form pitched between documentary ...
