Screenplay: Chris Marker

Direction Chris Marker

Plot French essay film focusing on global political turmoil in the 1960s and '70s, particularly the rise of the New Left in France and the development of socialist movements in Latin...

Direction Chris Marker

Cast Hélène Chatelain · Davos Hanich · Jacques Ledoux · André Heinrich

Plot The world is in ruins in the aftermath of a nuclear war. A team of scientists realise that the only way to save humanity from extinction is to send someone...

Direction Chris Marker · Pierre Lhomme

Cast Chris Marker · Yves Montand · Simone Signoret

Plot Documentary about Paris and the attitudes of Parisians at the height of the Algerian crisis.

Direction Chris Marker

Direction Chris Marker

Cast Florence Delay · Arielle Dombasle

Plot "He wrote me...." A woman narrates the thoughts of a world traveler, meditations on time and memory expressed in words and images from places as far-flung as Japan, Guinea-Bissau, Iceland,...

Direction Chris Marker

Cast Andrei Tarkovsky · Margarita Terekhova

Plot A documentary made prior to the death of filmmaker Andrei Arsenevitch (Tarkovsky) and showing him working on his final film, this record was made at Arsenevitch's request to stand as...

Direction Chris Marker

Plot This documentary tells the story of film director Aleksandr Medvedkin, throughout his life a sincere believer in communism, whose films were repeatedly banned in the Soviet Union. Modern Russian film...

Direction Chris Marker

Cast Catherine Le Couey · Nicolas Youmatoff · Pierre Vaneck

Plot An amateur photographer and two of his friends comment some pictures taken all over the world. An essay-film that is an album with photographs, over 800 images that Marker had...

Direction Chris Marker · Alain Resnais

Plot Statues Also Die traces the devastating impact of French colonialism on African art. As Resnais' co-director, Chris Marker, stated, "We want to see their suffering, serenity, humor, even though we...

Direction Joris Ivens

Plot A travelogue of Valparaiso, Chile, a city built on steep hills. Life is a constant struggle against geography. Neighbourhoods are reached by series of ramps, staircases, and funicular railway elevators....

Direction Terry Gilliam

Cast Bruce Willis · Madeleine Stowe · Brad Pitt · Christopher Plummer

Plot In this intriguing science fiction film from director Terry Gilliam, penal colony prisoner James Cole must travel back in time from the year 2035 to find the cause of a...

Direction Claude Lelouch · Agnès Varda · Jean-Luc Godard · Chris Marker

Cast Anne Bellec · Karen Blanguernon · Bernard Fresson · Maurice Garrel

Plot Seven directors combine efforts for this documentary, a searing anti-American indictment of U.S. involvement in Vietnam. Alain Resnais, Chris Marker, William Klein, Joris Ivens, Agnes Varda, Claude Lelouch, and Jean-Luc...

Direction Chris Marker

Plot Using a letter from Siberia as its launching pad, the film goes off quixotically in several different directions. Thus, it's hard to categorize the film: a first documentary, it becomes...

Direction Chris Marker · Mario Marret

Plot 1967, one year before may '68. The strike at the Rhodiaceta textile plant in Besançon sounds like the rehearsal of the rising to come. Indeed for the first time ever,...

Direction Chris Marker · Yannick Bellon

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

Direction Chris Marker

Direction Chris Marker

Plot Pioneer of the essay film style, enigmatic French auteur Chris Marker (La Jetée, Sans Soleil) visited Israel in the late 1950s. Turning his camera on the fledgling state, the resulting...

Direction Chris Marker

Cast Yves Montand · Simone Signoret · Artur London

Direction Chris Marker

Plot The 1964 Olympic games in Japan are seen through the eyes of the beautiful Muroaka Koumiko in this documentary from Chris Marker. She gives her opinions of life, love, men,...

Direction Chris Marker · François Reichenbach

Plot On October 21, 1967, over 100,000 protestors gathered in Washington, D.C., for the Mobilization to End the War in Vietnam. It was the largest protest gathering yet, and it brought...