Chris Marker

✶July 29, 1921

†July 29, 2012

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About their life

Chris Marker 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.

French filmmaker (1921–2012)

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Biography from the article Chris Marker on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.