Chris Marker Movies

After a military coup d'état, political dissidents seek refuge in a foreign embassy. Over the next few days, they are joined by more and more...

An inventor builds a homemade spacecraft, and uses it to have various adventures, including peeping at women, visiting ‘human’ planets,...

The two memories

Posthumous portrait of Chris Marker, the elusive French filmmaker- essayist, traveller, photographer and cat-lover. Two filmmakers, Jean-Marie Barbe...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

A cinematic haiku by Chris Marker.

An historical "if"

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

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

"There’s just no other way to say this: Chris Marker has built a museum in the sky of Second Life. That’s right, Second Life—the...

A wonderful tribute to the great Simone Signoret by Chris Marker. Rare documentary, made by movie clips and narration, with many lines Simone...

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