Marker, Chris 1921-

乱( visu )
9 editions published between 1991 and 2010 in 5 languages and held by 603 libraries worldwide
An aging warlord decides to split his kingdom between his three sons, who will live in three separate castles. The two eldest sons are quite happy, but the youngest thinks his father has gone mad, and predicts that it won't be long until the two older brothers are fighting with each other.

La jetée( visu )
1 edition published in 2007 in French and held by 588 libraries worldwide
La jetée: While at the Orly Airport observation deck, a boy sees a man shot. Shortly afterwards World War III breaks out and Paris is destroyed by nuclear weapons. As one of the survivors, the now grown man is chosen as part of an experiment in time travel because he has a strong grasp on a moment in the past--the image of the man being shot at the airport. He is successfully sent back in time. But once in the past, he falls in love with a girl, and defies orders to return and be with her.

Giraudoux par lui-même by Jean Giraudoux( Book )
19 editions published between 1952 and 1970 in French and held by 353 libraries worldwide

La jetée : ciné-roman by Chris Marker( Book )
10 editions published between 1992 and 2008 in French and Multiple languages and held by 320 libraries worldwide
"The book version of the legendary science fiction film (1964)"--Publisher description.

Giraudoux par lui-même; images et textes présentés by Jean Giraudoux( Book )
2 editions published in 1952 in French and held by 292 libraries worldwide

Le fond de l'air est rouge( visu )
5 editions published between 2008 and 2009 in English and French and held by 286 libraries worldwide
An overview of the worldwide political upheavals during the Sixties and Seventies. Interweaves footage from the Vietnam War and the antiwar protests in the U.S., May '68 in Paris, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, Salvador Allende and the coup in Chile, Che Guevara and Regis Debray in Bolivia, the Shah of Iran, Fidel Castro, et alia. Contains official images, film clips, news coverage trims and neglected reels.

Staring back by Chris Marker( Book )
4 editions published in 2007 in English and held by 242 libraries worldwide
Any new film and any new book by French filmmaker Chris Marker is an event. Marker gave film lovers one of their most memorable experiences with La Jetée (1962)--a time-travel montage set after a nuclear war that inspired Terry Gilliam's Twelve Monkeys (1995). His still camerawork is not as well known, but Marker has been taking photographs as long as he has been making films. Staring Back presents 200 black-and-white photographs from Marker's personal archives, taken from 1952 to 2006. Some of the photographs are related to his classic films (which include Le Jetée, Sans Soleil, ¡Cuba Si!, and The Case of the Grinning Cat), others are portraits of famous faces (Simone Signoret, Akira Kurosawa), but most are pictures of people Marker has encountered as he has traveled the world (an extra who appeared in Kurosawa's Ran, a woman seen on a street in Siberia). The central section of the book contains a series of photographs documenting political protests Marker has witnessed, including the march on the Pentagon in 1967, the events of May 1968 in Paris, and the tumultuous 2006 demonstrations protesting the French government's proposed employment policies. The photographs are accompanied by several unpublished texts by Marker, including the English language text of The Case of the Grinning Cat and Marker's annotations for some of the photos. The book--which appears in conjunction with an exhibition at the Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University--also includes essays by Wexner Center curator Bill Horrigan and art historian Molly Nesbit.

La batalla de Chile la lucha de un pueblo sin armas = The battle of Chile : the struggle of an unarmed people( visu )
2 editions published in 2009 in Spanish and held by 234 libraries worldwide
La batalla de Chile : "On September 11, 1973, President Salvador Allende's democratically-elected Chilean government was overthrown in a bloody coup by General Augusto Pinochet's army. Patricio Guzmán and five colleagues had been filming the political developments in Chile throughout the nine months leading up to that day. The bombing of the Presidential Palace, during which Allende died, would now become the ending for Guzmán's seminal documentary ... [a] chronicle of that country's open and peaceful socialist revolution, and of the violent counter-revolution against it."--Container.

Chris Marker, La jetée by Janet Harbord( Book )
7 editions published in 2009 in English and held by 187 libraries worldwide
Chris Marker's legendary "ciné roman" ("film novel") La Jetée is considered one of the greatest and most influential experimental films of all time. This short film - a postapocalyptic story composed almost entirely of black-and-white still photographs - has been praised by cultural theorists and Netflix subscribers alike. In this illustrated study of La Jetée, Janet Harbord focuses in part on the film's treatment of time - its shifts from a pre-war past to a projected future a further future of the future (each with its own signature images and sound) - arguing that in this way it addresses the nature of consciousness and the simultaneity of time-frames that we inhabit. Harbord moves easily from a close reading of the film to discussions of broader cultural issues, lucidly piecing together the enigma that is La Jetée.

Sans Soleil( visu )
19 editions published between 1962 and 2007 in 3 languages and held by 178 libraries worldwide
"An unknown woman reads and comments on the letters she receives from a friend, a freelance cameraman who travels around the world and wonders" about the meaning of his work and about the role of the memory he helps create.--Container.