Chris Marker Movies

Director Chris Marker begins by recounting his childhood dream of visiting the city of Peking - a city he was once only able to admire in books. The...

After the Romanian Revolution reached its peak during the Christmas Holidays of 1989, Romania’s Communist patriarch and his wife Elena were...

A series of 43 documentary shorts, directed (without credit) by several famous French filmmakers and each running between two and four minutes. Each...

Laura, a French programmer, inherits the task of creating a game about the World War II Battle of Okinawa. Her research and interviews with Japanese...

Through photos made by the French photographer Denise Bellon, a personal history of France.

This idiosyncratic view of Tokyo begins with a live mannequin in a store window and French actress Arielle Dombasle chatting with Marker as they...

A documentary about the Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky. The film was an episode of the French documentary film series Filmmakers of our time. The...

French essay film focusing on global political turmoil in the 1960s and '70s, particularly the rise of the New Left in France and the development of...

A short film that shows Boundless, Surreal objects that are juxtaposed with our present World. Cars, Motorways, noise of our modern society; A giant...

A documentary on Soviet filmmaker Aleksandr Medvedkin, examining his tumultuous career, the rediscovery of his masterpiece Happiness, and Russia's...

Chronicles the events immediately surrounding the CIA- supported coup itself.

A solar eclipse sends Simons from the nuclear-ruined post-war city of Vaken to present-day Toronto.

Guzmán’s final installment shifts from covering the actions of Allende’s opponents to those who battled to revive & promote their...

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...

A desktop documentary about the online afterlife of the late French filmmaker, Chris Marker.

A young man from the far future, bored by his surroundings, blasts off into space with only his cat and some robots for company. On a distant planet...

A modern Miami adaptation of the 1962 French short film "La Jetee", the film recounts Luke's (Uncle Luke, legendary rapper from the hip-hop group 2...

During the solar eclipse of August 11, 1999, Chris Marker documents the French public looking up to the skies, with many of them wearing eclipse...

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

In 1978, just after Le fond de l'Air Est Rouge, which mercilessly analyzed the previous ten years of the revolutionary left's momentum until its...