The Lost Futures of Chris Marker

A career retrospective by J. Hoberman (NYRB)

A still from Chris Marker's La Jetée (1962)

J. Hoberman (New York Review of Books) on the work of French filmmaker Chris Marker: 'At once unsentimentally au courant and fixated on that past, Marker was the Janus of world cinema. His unclassifiable documentaries treat memory as the stuff of science fiction, a notion he shared with his early associate Alain Resnais. Hardly a Luddite, Marker thrived on technological paradox. A half-hour succession of still images evoking motion pictures as time travel, La Jetée could have been made for Eadweard Muybridge’s nineteenth-century zoopraxiscope.' [Read More]

Also at A Piece of Monologue:

• Chris Marker 1921-2012
• Chris Marker Documentary
• Stills from Chris Marker's La jetée
• Echo Chamber: Listening to La Jetée
• The Architecture of Chris Marker's La Jetée