Chris Marker Movies

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

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

The Two Memories, “an investigation into Republican and Francoist memories”, in the words of Jorge Semprún, is based on interviews...

Guzmán’s final installment shifts from covering the actions of Allende’s opponents to those who battled to revive & promote their...

Filmed along the Emeryville Mudflats near San Francisco, Junkopia captures a landscape of sculptural installations made from driftwood and discarded...

Salvador Allende interviewed by Régis Debray in 1971.

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

Filmmaker William Klein documents the Paris student riots that occurred in May of 1968.

After the Romanian Revolution reached its peak during the Christmas Holidays of 1989, Romania’s Communist patriarch and his wife Elena were...

Cat film by Chris Marker

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

A short history of cinema

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

Short film about violence in London.

Laura, a French programmer, inherits the task of creating a game about the World War II Battle of Okinawa. Her research and interviews with Japanese...

Jean Ravel's A Distant Gaze (D'un lointain regard) is a 12-minute observance of people on the streets backed by Michel Legrand music.

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

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

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