The late French filmmaker Chris Marker (left), pictured together with his friend, director Alain Resnais.
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Chris Marker, a visionary French filmmaker who inspired modern sci-fi, died Sunday at age 91. News of his dying was confirmed today.
Marker s most well-known film, the 1962 dystopian masterpiece La Jet�e (The Jetty), was a motivation to a lot of leading sci-fi authors, including William Gibson and also the late J.G. Ballard. The silently effective, minimalist movie, composed almost solely of several black-and-whitened stills and clocking in at about 28 minutes, would be a direct inspiration for Terry Gilliam s 1995 thriller 12 Apes.
Marker s film happens inside a publish-apocalyptic Paris, soon after the nuclear holocaust of World War III. Paris is ravaged: Roads are covered in radioactive boulders, structures are blown out and also the Arc p Triomphe continues to be split in two. Almost everybody is dead or missing. Merely a couple of people survive, hidden within the labyrinthine tunnels beneath the decimated city. One sturdy survivor is selected in order to save the current by driving time for you to his reminiscences from the pre-war past, and also to the near future.
First viewing of La Jetee was astonishingly visceral, poetic, profound, Gibson authored Monday on Twitter after hearing of Marker s dying. Immeasurable effect on everything I ve written. Gibson added he first saw La Jet�e inside a film-history course in the College of Bc in early seventies.
Ballard formerly recognized La Jet�e within an essay he authored around the film. This strange and poetic film, a fusion of sci-fi, mental fable and photo-montage, produces in the unique way a number of bizarre images from the inner landscapes of your time, he excited.
Marker, whose real title was Christian Fran�ois Bouche-Villeneuve, appeared happy with the interest his work attracted later in the existence. Certainly, for me personally 12 Apes is really a magnificent film, stated Marker inside a rare interview with French newspaper Lib�ration in 2003.
Marker was modest, calling La Jet�e a bit of automatic writing.
It had been within the editing the bits of the puzzle joined together, also it wasn t me who designed the puzzle, he stated. I d possess a difficult time taking credit for this. It simply happened, that's all.
Marker seemed to be prolific, making several impressive films during the period of his lengthy lifetime, including Le Myst�re Koumiko (1965), A Grin With no Cat (1977) and Sans Soleil (1983). He produced several films in homage to his favorite company directors, including A.K. (a 1985 tribute to Akira Kurosawa) and Eventually within the Existence of Andrei Arsenevich (1999), for Andrei Tarkovsky. Also, he played around with with Compact disc-ROMs and digital multimedia installations later in the existence, in works like Immemory (1998).
See La Jet�e below.
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