Chris Marker Movies

Chris Marker’s travel essay Sunday in Peking transforms a long-held childhood dream into a cinematic journey through Beijing. Blending...

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

A desktop documentary about the online afterlife of the late French filmmaker, Chris Marker.

Part of Chris Marker’s Three Video Haikus series, Tchaïka is a brief visual meditation showing an overexposed view of a bridge and the...

Artur London was arrested in 1951 in a Stalinist purge, imprisoned and tortured for two years and forced to confess in the Slansky Trial, one of the...

An historical "if"

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

Chris Marker’s Stopover in Dubai is a found-footage documentary reconstructed from CCTV material released by Dubai State Security, documenting...

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

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

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

In a port city, a youth plays a computer game that determines the fate of a woman (whose interracial romance is threatened by white punks) and other...

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

A quietly observed montage of animals in captivity—seals, leopards, gorillas, wolves, monkeys, ostriches, and others—Zoo Piece shifts...

Filmed during the solar eclipse of August 11, 1999, Eclipse observes adults and children across France watching the darkened sky through protective...

Rhytmics of a revolution.

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

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

A personal history of France, told through photos by French photographer Denise Bellon.