Chris Marker — Playwright (15)
Three Haiku Videos (1994) [Movie] TMDB
Trois video haikus
other title: 三段影像俳句 / Trois video haikus
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.
Berlin 1990 (1990) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Berliner Ballade
other title: Berliner Ballade / 柏林叙事曲
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.
The Train Rolls on (1971) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Le Train en Marche
director: 克里斯·马克 actor: 亚历山大·门德夫金 / 弗朗索瓦·佩里埃
other title: 电影列车 / Le Train en Marche
"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.
The Embassy (1973) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
L'ambassade
director: 克里斯·马克
other title: 使馆游梦 / L'ambassade
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.
Cuba: Battle of the 10,000,000 (1971) [Movie] IMDb TMDB Douban
La bataille des dix millions
director: Chris Marker actor: Fidel Castro / Georges Kiejman
other title: La Bataille des dix millions / La bataille des dix millions
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).
Valparaiso (1965) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
...A Valparaíso
8.2 (6 ratings) director: 尤里斯·伊文思 actor: 罗歇·皮戈
other title: 瓦尔帕莱索 / ...A Valparaíso
In 1962 Joris Ivens was invited to Chile for teaching and filmmaking. Together with students he made …A Valparaíso, one of his most poetic films. Contrasting the prestigious history of the seaport with the present the film sketches a portrait of the city, built on 42 hills, with its wealth and poverty, its daily life on the streets, the stairs, the rack railways and in the bars. Although the port has lost its importance, the rich past is still present in the impoverished city. The film echoes this ambiguous situation in its dialectical poetic style, interweaving the daily life reality (of 1963) with the history of the city and changing from black and white to colour, finally leaving us with hopeful perspective for the children who are playing on the stairs and hills of this beautiful town.
传单电影 (2014) [Movie] IMDb TMDB Douban
Cinétracts
director: 让-吕克·戈达尔 actor: 让-吕克·戈达尔 / 切·格瓦拉
other title: Cinétracts / シネトラクト
A series of 41 documentary shorts, directed (without credit) by several famous French filmmakers and each running between two and four minutes. Each "tract" espouses a leftist political viewpoint through the filmed depiction of real-life events, including workers' strikes and the events of Paris in May '68.
Junkopia (1981) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Junkopia
7.9 (9 ratings) director: 克利斯·马克 / John Chapman & Frank Simeone actor: 阿丽尔·朵巴丝勒
other title: 垃圾纪元 / 정코피아
One day, at the stroke of evening, on Emeryville beach in San Francisco, where unidentified artists, leave, without anyone knowing, sculptures manufactured with items that have washed ashore from the sea.
This includes a short introduction by arte, approx. 1:12 secs long, with the film being around 6 minutes itself....there are 2 intertitles in the film itself, giving the latitudanal and longitudanal co-ordinates of the beach. No subtitles required, but ill work on some anyways.
The Pier (1962) [Movie]
La jetée
9.1 (438 ratings) director: Chris Marker actor: Jean Négroni / Hélène Chatelain
other title: / La jetée
A man is sent back and forth and in and out of time in an experiment that attempts to unravel the fate and the solution to the problems of a post-apocalyptic world during the aftermath of WW3. The experiment results in him getting caught up in a perpetual reminiscence of past events that are recreated on an airport’s viewing pier.