Comments for Chris Marker

Comment on Agnès Varda in the Atelier by seb

seb — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:20:36 +0000

hi,

thanks for the itunes link ! And thanks for all the posts on this blog, it’s really nice to see such writing and informations about Cinema, Avant garde and Chris Marker, which is in my opinion a too much unknown artist of our century.

Comment on Agnès Varda in the Atelier by soyezpalace

soyezpalace — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 16:33:03 +0000

Hi there, you can find it on the iTunes Store (it works from europe)
http://itunes.apple.com/fr/tv-season/agnes-de-ci-de-la-varda/id485341376

Comment on Happy 90th Birthday Chris Marker! by Сталкер

Сталкер — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 01:07:20 +0000

Wonderful comment, thanks much. Sounds like a great project. When I think of essay film, I also think of a few other filmmakers: Trinh T. Minh-ha, Hartmut Bitomski, Harun Farocki, Robert Kramer and Jem Cohen. Perhaps you will encounter some of their films in your masters work… Thanks again!

Comment on Happy 90th Birthday Chris Marker! by Island Girl

Island Girl — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 11:19:29 +0000

i’ve just found Mr Marker. i live in new zealand and a few years ago, in my early 50′s, when my second child left home i stepped aside from a long career in nursing and went back to university to do postgraduate study in digital media. i wasn’t sure why at the start as it would have been more logical to have studied something in the sciences but i followed my intuition, a passion and long time interest in taking pictures, filming anything i could and archiving memories in this way. it seemed important. i used to say to my writer husband “some people write books to tell stories but i am compelled to tell stories with pictures” and so the journey began. in 2012 i will complete my masters specialising in essay film. i am making my first ever formal short film about life growing up in post war & post colonial new zealand having being born and raised jammed between 2 cultures, a british father disembarking from the navy onto the shores of nz at the end of the war, and my mother, a native maori woman afflicted by her racial and cultural hybridity. my search for mentors in this, dare i say, “genre” of film has led me to Chris Marker, Agnes Varda, Ross McElwee, the Maysle brothers and a couple of others who look to be responsible for liberating my story from myself, prising it from my somewhat reluctant memory and giving me the confidence to take responsibility for it once it see’s the light of day. i am so grateful to artists such as Chris, as though his surname is prophetic, indeed a Marker for the rest of us trailing after him. i hope he lives for a long time yet … happy birthday to one of films legends.

Comment on Immemory by Chris Marker by Times Quotidian

Times Quotidian — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 08:09:40 +0000

[...] of images and text to represent memory, notably among them writers W.G. Sebald and filmmaker Chris Marker. Sebald was a magpie, collecting ephemera that he found at thrift shops and garage sales, dropping [...]

Comment on KINO + iDead by jeanwadier

jeanwadier — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 20:36:00 +0000

Hi,

I have a question about a TV program of yesteryear — at the time of a celebration for the American Center in Paris …: Chris Marker commented on French vs. American attitudes: is there any trace of this program ( i have checked in many places before … hence this question ?
Thanks
Jean Wadier
Translator
Paris/New York

Comment on Happy 90th Birthday Chris Marker! by blindlibrarian

blindlibrarian — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 02:13:21 +0000

Just received this wonderful email from Guillermo García:

I just wanted to write a couple of words about your anniversary question, how has Marker touched your life; well, he has actually been crucial in my life since I found his work by pure chance when I saw, as everyone else, La Jetée. Today I have more than 45 of his films, I learnt french to understand them, I wrote articles and I’ve analyzed his films in academic congresses, but most of all, I just finished my first film-essay, that wouldn’t exist without him. I always recorded video in an intuitive way, without knowing exactly what to do with those images I gathered, and I just kept on compiling images and images. With Marker I really understood what can be done with those images that are important to you for any reason (or what exactly I wanted to do with them), and how exciting and challenging it could be, and I started doing it. The decisive point for starting my first film was that sentence by Marker saying that today we have the tools to do films in the same way a painter work, without spending too much money. We only have to go out and do it, completing Astruc’s idea. Now I know I will keep on doing film-essays the rest of my life. So I’ll thank Marker for the rest of my life. Alors, très bon 90 anniversaire, Chris; visiting the New York exhibition I just couldn’t believe you’re actually 90.

Comment on KINO + iDead by The View Beyond Parallax… more reads for week of October 14 | Parallax View

The View Beyond Parallax… more reads for week of October 14 | Parallax View — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 16:42:12 +0000

[...] Two new short videos have popped up on Chris Marker’s YouTube channel. iDead‘s take on Steve Jobs is obvious, albeit thrillingly choreographed to Purcell, while [...]

Comment on Guillaume’s Conclusion by srjm

srjm — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 21:31:43 +0000

“but the beloved model keeps moving: and the only snapshots we can take are always out of focus” – In The Shadow Of Young Girls In Flower”

Comment on Guillaume’s Conclusion by Сталкер

Сталкер — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 05:35:49 +0000

You’re probably right, but it could be multivalent…