Chris Marker Movies

Composed entirely of still photographs shot by Marker himself over the course of his restless travel through twenty-six countries, If I Had Four...

Like more and more internet users, if you didn't watch TV in 2007, you'll think twice about it in 2008. Because Guillaume-en-Egypte, Chris Marker's...

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

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

One of the first filmed portraits of a jazz musician.

An historical "if"

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

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

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

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

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

Documentary about economic development in Cuba, particularly the effort to boost output of sugar cane. This film is made from a compilation of...

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

'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,...

A cinematic haiku by Chris Marker.

A subway jigsaw of Marker's work: PASSENGERS.

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.

On November the 4th 1969, Carlos Marighella is caught in an ambush and killed by the bullets of 80 policemen armed with revolvers and machine guns....

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...