Comments on: Mayday Flâneur

By: Tyler Beaman

Tyler Beaman — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:08:00 +0000

I ran across this and thought it would be of interest to followers of this blog.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/89096975@N00/

It is Sandor Krasna’s flickr page. Many of the images are the same, but some are different than those represented in the slide show.

By: Chris Marker from the streets of Paris, May 2009.

Chris Marker from the streets of Paris, May 2009. — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:17:26 +0000

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By: Mi

Mi — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 06:52:21 +0000

Does anybody know about a 2006 re-cut version of “Le joli mai”? And where to find it?

By: Сталкер

Сталкер — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 05:24:36 +0000

I know exactly the shot you mention; I caught it on my 4th viewing of Sans Soleil on VHS in a small room in the Cornell library one fine day approximately 20 years ago. Comparing your image to the recent one, it appears that he has aged only very slightly. Perhaps at some point he discovered that old alchemical elixir known to the Comte de St. Germain, or then again perhaps it’s a side effect of time travel. Thanks for evoking this sublime/subliminal moment, and sorry your comment got caught for a couple days in the purgatory of the spam filter!

By: MHV

MHV — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:10:40 +0000

On the reputation of invisibility… Marker carefully shot himself in Sans Soleil:

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/8959/CM-SS.png

The sequence happens in Japan; Marker films a bunch of TV sets which are connected in closed circuit with a video camera. The movement is very interesting, because it shows first that the video camera and the TV are connected, and at 90 degrees.

Once that’s established, Marker does a panning shot, and films the TV for a few seconds. Given the position of the video camera, he appears with a 3/4 profile on the TV set, firmly lodged behind his 16mm camera, then vanishes.

Until Sans Soleil would have been available on VHS, that was the kind of glimpse of Marker reserved to the projectionist.