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Chris Marker

“Rarely has reality needed so much to be imagined.”

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    ...A VALPARAÍSO

    JORIS IVENS France, 1963

    This collaboration between Joris Ivens and Chris Marker fascinates not just for its subject matter—daily life in the titular Chilean seaport city—but the traces of their distinct points-of-view. A fertile dynamic emerges from the realism of Ivens’ images and the fluid associations of Marker’s prose.

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    AMERICA AS SEEN BY A FRENCHMAN

    FRANÇOIS REICHENBACH France, 1960

    Co-written with Chris Marker, this French New Wave travelogue both delights in the carnival that is American abundance and lifts the lid on cookie-cutter uniformity to reveal inequality and waste beneath. Wait for the ending: a heavenward gaze at glassy skyscrapers that is nothing short of sublime.

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