ESSAYS
Chris Marker’s Permanent Film Revolution
Motivated by the retrospective of
films by Chris Marker at the Human Rights Festival in December
2005, the author reflects on this French director’s career
starting from the beginning of his cooperation with Alain
Resnais for films Les Statues meurent aussi and Nuit
et brouillard. He also comments on Marker’s most famous
work from his early period, the science-fiction film La
Jetée, then a series of engaged documentaries, ¡Cuba
Si!, about the Cuban revolution, Loin du Viêt Nam,
about Vietnam War, Le Fond de l’air est rouge, about
New Left and so on. In all these works Marker defines himself
as being a film chronicler of leftist movements and revolution
in general but also offers his own intimate narration about
a political events he chronicles. A separate part of this
essay consists of the analysis of Marker’s complex film-essay, Sans
Soleil, as well as his works dedicated to Russian directors
Andrei Tarkovsky and Aleksandr Medvedkin, Une journée
d’Andrei Arsenevitch and Le Train en marche.
Marijan Krivak |
