Chris Marker (French: [maʁkɛʁ]; 29 July 1921 – 29 July 2012) was a French writer, photographer, documentary film director, multimedia performer and film essayist. His best known films are La Jetée (1962), A Grin Without a Cat (1977) and Sans Soleil (1983). Marker is usually joined with the Left Bank subset of the French New Wave that occurred in the late 1950s and 1960s, and included such supplementary filmmakers as Alain Resnais, Agnès Varda and Jacques Demy.
His buddy and sometime collaborator Alain Resnais called him “the prototype of the twenty-first-century man.” Film theorist Roy Armes has said of him: “Marker is unclassifiable because he is unique…The French Cinema has its dramatists and its poets, its technicians, and its autobiographers, but lonesome has one authenticated essayist: Chris Marker.”
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