Chris Marker

"sans soleil" is indeed miraculous. "la fond..." is extremely interesting and worthwhile but more esoteric perhaps, it presumes a knowledge of and interest in european and worldwide left-wing movements of the 60s and 70s.

would that more of marker's vast ouevre be screened more often. i'm particularly fond of "letter from siberia" and "description of a struggle" (the latter about israel). oh wait i mentioned that upthread.

anyone else have "immemory," his handmade cd-rom? i was first a bit disappointed by it, expecting a labyrinth along the lines of contemporary video games. once i got used to its limits i found it extremely charming and diverting, but not really much more than that.

i'm reminded of my experience with renoir's "the river," which bazin among others praised for its richness and humanity, traits i observed as well, alongside some very dated colonialist nostalgia and orientalist "eternal india" nonsense.

but what i think mary observed is just, in part at least, marker's mode.... he takes much the same approach to observation other places--siberia, israel, korea, even france--and it would perhaps get precious save for his self-deprecating sense of humor (he has an extraordinary sense of humor) and the fact that most of the observations are posed as questions, or as ruminations.

god mark, i dunno, itv1 show 'loin de vietnam' on loop and still you persist in ignoring them...

interested parties may contact me via email

sorry for being cagey

-- Eric H. (ephende...), October 30th, 2004.

i can ask my collector friend about it. are you in the states or what?

i met the producer of this film recently.

I implore you! I would be eternally in your debt just for questioning. (Yes, I'm in the states.)

http://www.pimpadelicwonderland.com/havesgenres.html#Anchor-documentaries-43793

la jetée is both very atypical of marker and quite representative of his concerns and obsessions (some of them)

there is a sans soleil/la jetee dvd in the uk. and one in france.

his film "ak" is on certain deluxe editions of kurosawa's ran.

and inevitably there are things available in japan.

but otherwise, nothing.

most of his films have never enjoyed very good distribution, even some of the most famous ones like le joli mai.

i have some of his films on video dubs, but i can't make further copies for anyone, don't have the technical capabailities.

i'd like to see le mystere koumiko, cuba si, description d'un combat, etc. more widely available. not to mention le fond de l'air est rouge.

also, sans soleil is (or at least was) available on vhs here.

these, sadly, are the only 2 i've seen.

-- mark s (mar...), November 19th, 2003.

ha!

Perhaps the luckiest "catch" I've ever had in my moviegoing life. Actually, scratch that "perhaps."

Well, I'd imagine that I'll just buy the DVD burn of Vietnam and hope it's a little bit less chatty than Sans soleil or Last Bolshevik.

Immemory

and here also

Chris Marker CD-Rom

I haven’t seen it! Mainly putting this here to remind myself to watch

I was just joking. When Agnès Varda passed recently I saw a few films of hers in which he appears and because he is camera shy she always obscured him in the fashion described.

Yeah I got that

Oh, okay

Thanks for posting. Much, much cleaner than the DVDR copy that I lost a couple moves ago.

Thanks for posting!!

Seems that French language version just showed up a few weeks ago of La Jetée on Criterion. Hadn’t realized that English language version had equal status.

Dope!

Re: wins post, thx wins

Yeah, thanks, wins.

I can't seem to find any prior post, from myself or otherwise, but I really dug this installation he did I saw at MoMA which was called Silent Movie.

https://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/1995/videospaces/marker.html

http://www.mfj-online.org/journalPages/MFJ29/McElhaneyMarker.html

Haven't reread those links recently. My memory was there was a five high stack of video monitors four around looping black and white footage of a glamorous lady or an old school phonograph, along with mash-up film posters on the nearby walls of things like a Maciste movie directed by René Clair, say.

I... had no idea!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6U9oKZAaEY

Wow. Did he do one for The Psychedelic Furs as well? #OneThread.

Fantastic.

100th birthday today

Saw that on Mubi

Haven't reread those links recently. My memory was there was a five high stack of video monitors four around looping black and white footage of a glamorous lady or an old school phonograph, along with mash-up film posters on the nearby walls of things like a Maciste movie directed by René Clair, say.

I used to walk by this interesting-looking super high-window office in Soho which turned out to be for the publishing company Seven Stories Press. Soon I found out that a guy I knew worked there so one day he invited me in. On the walls there were some really interesting posters and drawings. On one wall was a bunch of doodles done by Kurt Vonnegut illustrating the seven (?) basical plotlines such as Man Falls in Hole. On another was a poster full of cool-looking /slightly-pulpy paperback covers that didn’t look quite real. I said “that looks like a Chris Marker thing” and he said “it is!”