Chris Marker Movies

Paris 2002. Yellow cats appear on the walls. Chris Marker is looking for these mysterious cats and captures with his camera the political and...

This 1973 French documentary explores the conflict between modern values and material comforts in Japan and the more traditional obligations (giri)...

Pictures, collages, well, call'em XPLUGS

Berlin 1990 travels the streets and the political landscape of the recently re-unified Berlin. In the tumultuous atmosphere of 1990, we watch...

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

This half-hour documentary focuses on Medvedkin and his CineTrain of the 1930s, a sort of mobile film workshop, complete with post-production...

Chris Marker's cat and rat.

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

Two friends (and legendary French New Wave filmmakers) meet in real and virtual worlds.

Cat film by Chris Marker

An affectionate portrait of the left-wing publisher and bookshop owner François Maspero, who was a contributor to Far From Vietnam and would...

As the perspective shifts from display to imprisonment, a montage of images from a zoo takes on increasing significance and pathos.

Video on the mass media response to the bardo-traversing of Steve Jobs. Long live the archive and the archivist.

After a sleepless night, Obama's victory flashes on frontpages around the world.

Short film about violence in London.

Excerpts from Alain Resnais' film NIGHT AND FOG served as evidence during the trial against Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem. On the evening before the...

Chris Marker films a cat reacting to the sound of a piano playing.

Originally displayed as part of an installation consisting of one metal stand, 5 monitors, 5 laser disc players, a computer face interbox, 5 video...

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...

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