Chris Marker
Sign in to saveAlso known as Christian François Bouche- Villeneuve, Christian François Bouche-Villeneuve, Christian Francois Bouche-Villeneuve
French filmmaker (1921–2012)
Key facts
- Born
- Christian François Bouche-Villeneuve , ( 1921-07-29 ) 29 July 1921, Neuilly-sur-Seine , France
- Died
- 29 July 2012 (2012-07-29) (aged 91), Paris, France
- Occupations
- Film director photographer journalist multimedia artist
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- François
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Neuilly-sur-Seine
- Place of death
- 20th arrondissement of Paris
- Occupation
- director
- Educated at
- Lycée Pasteur
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- French
- Participant in
- documenta x
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- influenced by
- T. S. Eliot
- date of birth
- 1921-07-29
- date of death
- 2012-07-29
- name in native language
- Christian Bouche-Villeneuve
- nominated for
- Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation
- manner of death
- natural causes
- Commons category
- Chris Marker
- archives at
- Cinémathèque Française
- place of burial
- Montparnasse Cemetery
- related category
- Category:Films directed by Chris Marker
- start of work period
- 1952-00-00
- end of work period
- 2004-00-00
- pseudonym
- Chris Marker
- birth name
- Christian Hippolyte François Georges Bouche-Villeneuve
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Encyclopedic overview
Chris Marker ( French: [maʁkɛʁ]; born Christian-François Bouche-Villeneuve; 29 July 1921 – 29 July 2012) was a French writer, photographer, documentary film director, multimedia artist and film essayist. His best known films are La Jetée (1962), A Grin Without a Cat (1977) and Sans Soleil (1983). Marker is usually associated with the Left Bank subset of the French New Wave that occurred in the late 1950s and 1960s, and included such other filmmakers as Alain Resnais, Agnès Varda and Jacques Demy.
His friend and sometime collaborator Alain Resnais called him "the prototype of the twenty-first-century man." Film theorist Roy Armes has said of him: "Marker is unclassifiable because he is unique... French Cinema has its dramatists and its poets, its technicians, and its autobiographers, but only has one true essayist: Chris Marker."
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chris Marker” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.