We Maintain It Is Possible

We Maintain It Is Possible

In 1973, after the failure of wage negotiations with the management of the Lip watch factories, the workers went on strike. Marker was responsible...

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Stopover in Dubai

Stopover in Dubai

Stopover in Dubai is a chillingly simple – and riveting – found-footage documentary on a reconstructed murder. The original film was produced by...

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From a Distant Gaze

From a Distant Gaze

Jean Ravel's A Distant Gaze (D'un lointain regard) is a 12-minute observance of people on the streets backed by Michel Legrand music.

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Tchaïka

Tchaïka

A still, highly overexposed shot of a car bridge and the river below. A cinematic haiku by Chris Marker.

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Playtime in Paris

Playtime in Paris

Catherine Varlin's 27-minute Playtime in Paris (1962) is almost a practice run for Le joli mai, a sampling that starts in a classroom and then...

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An Owl Is an Owl Is an Owl

An Owl Is an Owl Is an Owl

From Chris Marker's collection Bestiaire aka Petit Bestiaire (1990), consisting of three video haikus.

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La Jétee

La Jétee

A radical re-imagining of French auteur Chris Marker's masterpiece.

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Life and Freaky Times of Uncle Luke

Life and Freaky Times of Uncle Luke

'Life and Freaky Times of Uncle Luke' A modern Miami adaptation of the 1962 French short film 'La Jetee', the film recounts Luke's (Uncle Luke...

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Bullfight in Okinawa

Bullfight in Okinawa

Chris Marker’s Bullfight in Okinawa is a bizarre, 4 min documentary that introduces viewers to Japan’s subterranean past time of bullfighting. Part...

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Owl Gets in Your Eyes

Owl Gets in Your Eyes

A cinematic haiku by Chris Marker.

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Theory of Sets

Theory of Sets

Made entirely on Roger Wagner's HyperStudio software, Chris Marker explores set theory, using Noah's Ark as an example.

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Les hommes de la baleine

Les hommes de la baleine

In a small fishermen's village in the Azores, an enormous whale is being jointed, carved and stocked. Once this task is over, the whalers ready...

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The Spiral

The Spiral

Documentary on the events provoked by the systematic attack of imperialism on the Popular Unity government in Chile, presided by Salvador Allende.

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Les Deux mémoires

Les Deux mémoires

The two memories

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The Sea and the Days

The Sea and the Days

Everyday life of fishermen on Brittany's Ile de Sein.

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Des Hommes Dans Le Ciel

Des Hommes Dans Le Ciel

Pictures at an Exhibition

Pictures at an Exhibition

Pictures, collages, well, call'em XPLUGS

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The Mystery of Workshop 15

The Mystery of Workshop 15

A documentary film about occupational diseases shot in 1957 at the Francolor factory in Oissel. It takes the form of a scientific investigation to...

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Report on Brazil: Torture

Report on Brazil: Torture

On September the 4th, 1969, a group of Brazilian revolutionaries kidnap the U.S. ambassador. In exchange for his release, they demand that the...

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Rush - Voyage à Moscou

Rush - Voyage à Moscou

A document of Perestroika, to be viewed as (nearly) unedited rushes of a voyage to Moscow, preserved by compatriot Costa-Gavras. Says Émilie Cauquy...

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