Chris Marker
Chris Marker
Chris Markerwas a French writer, photographer, documentary film director, multimedia artist and film essayist. His best known films are La Jetée, A Grin Without a Cat, Sans Soleiland AK, an essay film on the Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa. Marker is often associated with the Left Bank Cinema movement that occurred in the late 1950s and included such other filmmakers as Alain Resnais, Agnès Varda, Henri Colpi and Armand Gatti...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionMultimedia Artist
Date of Birth29 July 1921
CountryFrance
Chris Marker quotes about
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?
Rarely has reality needed so much to be imagined.
Nothing sorts out memories from ordinary moments. It is only later that they claim remembrance, when they show their scars.
I chose a pseudonym, Chris Marker, pronounceable in most languages, because I was very intent on traveling.
I betrayed Gutenberg for McLuhan long ago.
I’ve been round the world several times and now only banality still interests me,
What I'm passionate about is History, and politics interest me only insofar as it is the cross-section of History in the present.