Chris Marker, 1921-2012

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Published on   /  Last Updated on 02 August 2012

"The essay film, a form pitched between documentary and personal reflection, exploring the subjectivity of the cinematic perspective, has now become an accepted genre. Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet, Jean-Luc Godard, Errol Morris and Michael Moore are among its main recent exponents, but Chris Marker, who has died aged 91, was credited with inventing the form. Marker's creative use of sound, images and text in his poetic, political and philosophical documentaries made him one of the most inventive of film-makers." —The Guardian

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  • iblamesummmers

    RIP

  • A47

    Chris had a passion for film as a medium beyond that of most. You will be missed.

  • vivwong

    I am heartbroken.

  • chiarastami

    He wrote me: I will have spent my life trying to understand the function of remembering, which is not the opposite of forgetting, but rather its lining. We do not remember, we rewrite memory much as history is rewritten. How can one remember thirst?

  • Scorpio Velvet

    So long, Chris Marker….

    Let LA JETEE remain his greatest work of all.

  • Ryan

    So Christopher Nolan gets ~4,000 words and Chris Marker gets a block quote from The Guardian.

  • Bobby Wise

    Hahaha! Game, set, match.

  • Fixed Frame

    The cat is gone. But we still have the grin.

  • Blackwood

    He inspired me so much. A real shame, but his films live on!

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