A collection of three short “video haikus” by Chris Marker. Yanka / Tchaika observes the Seine beneath a bridge; Owl Gets in Your Eyes features Catherine Belkhodja with an owl superimposed in flight; and Petite Ceinture pays homage to the Lumière brothers by filming empty train tracks along Paris’s disused railway.

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.

Some months after the fall of the Berlin wall, during the time of federal elections in Germany in 1990, Chris Marker shot this passionate documentary, reflecting the state of the place and its spirit with remarkable acuity.

Pictures, collages, well, call'em XPLUGS

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

"Le train en marche", gives us an intimate insight of Medvedkin's experience with the CineTrain in Russia during the 1930's. Marker achieves once more to delight the audience of this short documentary through a delicate selection of pictures, music and contents. It is mentioned in the movie that of all arts, cinema is the most important. Even though this claiming may be questionable it is undoubtedly that cinema can be much more than a simple element of entertainment becoming an effective tool of education when in the right hands. The movie also refreshingly reminds us of how youth and romanticism can act as the main strength for those who believe that a different/better world is possible.

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 people who are fleeing the military assault: teachers, students, intellectuals, artists, and politicians.

Originally produced as separate short films between 1962 and 1999.
Primarily live action films; Café bar, Bride of Resistor, and What is sex? are animated.
A collection of award-winning short films from around the world.
Special features: La jetée includes two alternative audio tracks, one featuring 12 monkeys screenwriters David and Janet Peoples, the second features 12 monkeys director Terry Gilliam ; A guy walks into a bar features an audio commentary track by Carmen Elly, Roderick Plummer and George Swift ; An eye like a strange balloon includes an audio commentary track by Guy Maddin and storyboards ; Big brass ring includes clips from the feature film version of the film.
La jetée: The themes of time and memory are intricately sewn into a eulogy to civilization.
Cafe bar: In this brushstroke animation a random meeting at a cafe becomes two people’s "escape" from one another.
Depth solitude: A lyrical short film about loneliness and the extreme measures some will take to overcome it.
A guy walks into a bar: A naive wannabe actor stumbles into a real life cowboy fantasy while driving across country.
Bride of Resistor: In this sequel to the kinetic animation film Mr. Resistor, the diminuitive scrap heap hero returns to have his heart stolen by a plasticine mistress.
Eye like a strange balloon: A whimsical allegory on man’s journey through time and space.
Vincent, the junkie chronicles: a work-in-progress documentary takes an unblinking look at the life of an addict.
Big brass ring: Malcolm McDowell plays a controversial political icon who verbally spars with a beautiful journalist.

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Documentary about economic development in Cuba, particularly the effort to boost output of sugar cane. This film is made from a compilation of newsreel footage from the Cuban film institute and from Santiago Alvarez's film Despegue a las 18.00 (Departure 18:00).

The second entry in Marker's three-short 'video haiku' series focusing on animals, Bestiare.
This is an entrancing study of one of Marker's favorite animals, the owl.
A visit to an aviary yields a rhythmically edited series of close-ups of the rapidly rotating or intently staring feathered heads of a colorful variety of owls, accompanied by an ambient electronic soundtrack.

Marker’s OWLS AT NOON Prelude: The Hollow Men is a 19-minute looped media installation commissioned by the Museum to celebrate its reopening in Manhattan.
The text- and image-based media work, which is the first in Marker’s ambitious multipart history of the 20th century, takes as its starting point T. S. Eliot’s poem ‘The Hollow Men’ (1925), which evokes the repercussions of World War I.

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Paris 2002. Yellow cats appear on the walls. Chris Marker is looking for these mysterious cats and captures with his camera the political and international events of these last two years (war in Iraq...).

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

A variety of owls look around. Sometimes they sleep. They seem to say something with their eyes. There are mice and young owls too.