Films byTexts by Chris Marker
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Chris Marker, 1962, 28’

Time travel, still images, a past, present and future and the aftermath of World War III. The tale of a man, a slave, sent back and forth, in and out of time, to find a solution to the world's fate.

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Chris Marker, Pierre Lhomme, 1963, 165’

Le joli mai is a portrait of Paris and its inhabitants in the month of May, 1962. Although the war with Algeria officially ended and a promise of peace and prosperity fills the springtime air, the spectre of the war still looms.

 

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Chris Marker, 1983, 104’

“Because I know that time is always time

And place is always and only place”

T.S. Eliot

 

“Omdat ik weet: tijd is voortdurend tijd

En plaats altijd en alleen maar plaats ...”

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Chris Marker, 1993, 120’

Chris Marker brings hommage to his friend and mentor Alexander Medvedkin. Doing so he considers the fate of communism and his own shortcomings.