An account of Vulcanologist Haroun Tazieff's long "love story" with the formidable Nigarongo, a volcano situated in what was formerly Belgian Congo, from 1948 when Tazieff was the first man ever to climb it and to explore it until the mid sixties.
On vous parle du Chili : ce que disait Allende, de Miguel Littin, France, 1973, 16’, nb
post-production :Chris Marker
collection Bpi
Interview de Salvador Allende par Régis Debray.
Je crois que la bourgeoisie part d’une erreur, qui fait de l’homme le facteur essentiel dans un processus social. Nous, nous savons que c’est le peuple, que ce sont les masses. (...) Pour le Chili,...
An oddly rhythmic and balletic tape emerges from the juxtaposition of an elephant lumbering around his enclosure at the zoo and elegant music by Stravinsky.
Filmed at Ljubljana Zoo, Slovenia. Tango: Igor Stravinsky
The Owl's Legacy is a symposium. A symposium of symposium's. A gathering over food and wine where the host, in this case Marker, picks a topic of discussion, which is ritually discussed in unison with the passing of the wine. The conversation becomes a journey. A journey in which the destination is unknown and the possibilities are endless. For this symposium, strictly for inte...
THREE CHEERS FOR THE WHALE chronicles the history of mankind's relationship with the largest and most majestic of marine mammals, and graphically exposes their slaughter by the fishing industry. Chris Marker's co-director, Mario Ruspoli, descendant of an aristocratic Italian family, had been a journalist, painter and ethnologist before discovering his vocation as a documentary ...
In 1974, Marker made La solitude du chanteur de fond, which follows Yves Montand as he
prepares a benefit concert for Chilean refugees. That Montand had not performed live in many
years made his participation in this concert all the more significant. The portrait of Montand
is intercut with footage from films in which he starred, including Costa Gavras's Z (1969) and
L'Aveu (19...
