Chris Marker Movies

Chris Marker’s Tokyo Days follows the filmmaker and actress Arielle Dombasle as they wander through Tokyo, beginning with an encounter with a...

Chris Marker’s documentary portrays Israel twelve years after its founding, blending location and archival footage to explore its diverse...

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...

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

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...

Co-directed by Chris Marker and Mario Ruspoli, Three Cheers for the Whale traces humanity’s complex relationship with whales—from...

A radical re-imagining of French auteur Chris Marker's masterpiece.

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

An experimental meditation on Times Square's marquees and iconic advertising that captures the concurrently seedy and dazzling aspects of New York's...

Part of Chris Marker’s Bestiaire (Petit Bestiaire) collection, Cat Listening to Music simply observes a cat responding to the sound of a piano.

Part of Chris Marker’s Bestiaire (Petit Bestiaire) collection, An Owl Is an Owl Is an Owl is a short video meditation on the gaze and movement...

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

Cat film 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...

Salvador Allende interviewed by Régis Debray in 1971.

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

This film is considered lost. Chris Marker described it as his first film, shot in Berlin on an 8mm movie camera purportedly borrowed from...

A tour of Ouvroir, the virtual museum Chris Marker created in the online world Second Life with collaborator Max Moswitzer. Guided by Marker’s...

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...

Chris Marker's cat and rat.