Chris Marker Movies

Popular neighborhoods that are open-air prisons. Where beauty flirts with violence. The kingdom of the insubordinate children, veterans of the lead....

A young man, who served as a peacekeeper in Bosnia and Herzegovina for a few months during the war, recounts his experiences. Throughout the film, we...

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

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

A documentary look at striking workers in a textile plant in Besançon, France, centering on interviews with workers about their motivations...

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

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

This documentary chronicles an Yves Montand concert for Chilean refugees in France.

Filmmaker William Klein documents the Paris student riots that occurred in May of 1968.

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

Prime Time in the Camps is one of a series of Chris Marker’s short films on the war in Yugoslavia. Featuring behind-the-scenes footage of the...

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

A portrait of the Chilean artist Roberto Matta leading Marker on a wise and funny private guided tour of his solo exhibition at the Pompidou Center.

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

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 follow-up to the documentary Be Seeing You (À bientôt, j'espère), made by a filmmaking collective in cooperation with the...

Salvador Allende interviewed by Régis Debray in 1971.

Some months after the fall of the Berlin wall, during the time of federal elections in Germany in 1990, Chris Marker shot this passionate...

A cinematic haiku by Chris Marker.

An oddly rhythmic and balletic tape emerges from the juxtaposition of an elephant lumbering around his enclosure at the zoo and elegant music by...