Chris Marker
Chris Marker (actually Christian -François Bouche -Villeneuve, born July 29, 1921 in Neuilly -sur -Seine, Ile -de -France, † July 29, 2012 in Paris) was a French writer, photographer and documentary filmmaker. His most famous films are the mounted photos from film at the edge of the taxiway and Sans Soleil - Invisible Sun.
Life
Chris Marker studied philosophy of Jean -Paul Sartre. During the Second World War, he participated in the French Resistance. After the war he began to write movies and to turn before he published a novel and a book of poetry. He traveled to many socialist countries and documented what he saw in movies and books. Les statues meurent aussi (1953 ), a film about the art theft of the Europeans in Africa, he turned in collaboration with Alain Resnais, was one of the first anti-colonial films.
His 1962 short film rotated on the edge of the taxiway is the template for the 1995 Terry Gilliam staged science fiction film Twelve Monkeys. Also, by its success gained Marker's film a higher profile.
In his travel and essay film Sans soleil (1983 ), which connects fictional elements with essayistic and philosophical commentaries, used markers own and other documentary material, such as Japan and Africa that experienced by the comment of the fictional author and the mounting part poetic shifts in meaning and be seen as new or different from the viewer. He reflects upon the medium of film itself, its conditions, but also time and rhythm, melancholy and memory. The sound takes a middle position between serious analysis and detailed amorous curiosity and playfulness.
Since the 1980s, markers showed great interest in electronic media ( digital image processing to video games ) that the essay film Level Five ( 1996) with actress Catherine Belkhodja, a kind of sequel to Silent Movie, shapes and in the multimedia CD -Rom Immemory (1996, produced for the Centre Pompidou ) culminates. Another work, the video report Chats Perches, dealt with the public space of Paris in the period between September 2001 and Autumn 2003: On the one hand it is a search for the cats, which appear as graffiti figures in Paris suddenly everywhere, on the other hand, following Chris marker the political events of the time, which is reflected in demonstrations.
As a filmmaker felt connected with Andrei Tarkovsky and Chris Marker, Akira Kurosawa, which he has portrayed in both films. Chris Marker lived in Paris and gave no interviews. There are hardly any photos of markers, since he was reluctant to be photographed. Chris Marker insisted his name " Chris.Marker " to write what has hardly enforced in film publications and lexical.
For his film Berlin ballads, he received the 1990 German - French Journalism Prize.