Chris Marker Quotes

Chris Marker — French Director born on July 29, 1921, died on July 29, 2012

Chris Marker was a French writer, photographer, documentary film director, multimedia artist and film essayist. His best known films are La Jetée, A Grin Without a Cat, Sans Soleil and AK, an essay film on the Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa. Marker is often associated with the Left Bank Cinema movement that occurred in the late 1950s and included such other filmmakers as Alain Resnais, Agnès Varda, Henri Colpi and Armand Gatti... (wikipedia)

I chose a pseudonym, Chris Marker, pronounceable in most languages, because I was very intent on traveling.

What I'm passionate about is History, and politics interest me only insofar as it is the cross-section of History in the present.

Rarely has reality needed so much to be imagined.