Since the early 1950s, Chris Marker has embraced different
filmmaking styles as readily as he has new technologies, and has
broadened conceptions of the documentary in distinctly personal
ways. He has travelled around the world, tracking political
upheavals and historic events, as well as unearthing the stories
buried under official reporting. This globetrotting filmmaker
testifies to his six decades on the move through a passionate
devotion to the moving image. Yet from the outset, his filmic
images reveal a fascination with stillness. It is at this juncture
of mobility and immobility that Sarah Cooper situates her
comprehensive study of Marker's films. She pays attention to the
central place that photographs occupy in his work, as well as to
the emergence in his filming of statuary, painting and other static
images, including the film still, and his interest in fixed frame
shooting. She engages with key debates in photographic and film
theory in order to argue that a different conception of time
emerges from his filmic explorations of stasis. In detailed
readings of each of his films, including Le souvenir d'un avenir
andLa Jetee, Sans soleil and Level 5, Cooper charts Marker's
concern with mortality in varied historical and geographical
contexts, which embraces the fragility of the human race, along
with that of the planet. -- .
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