Chris Marker
Directing
23
Acting Credits
82
Directed
Biography
Christian François Bouche-Villeneuve, better known as Chris Marker (France, 29 July 1921 – 29 July 2012), was a French writer, poet, activist, critic, photographer, traveler, journalist, film essayist, multimedia artist, and documentary filmmaker. He began his career as part of the French Rive Gauche group—parallel to but distinct from the Nouvelle Vague—with which he would later share certain themes and collaborators. Marker is credited with developing the subjective documentary and is conside...
Known For
Filmography
Nostalgia for the Future
2026
as Self (Archive footage)
L’indispensable
2026
as Photos/Extrait
Ten Lives of a Cat: A Film about Chris Marker
2023
as Kaibyō (archive footage)
The Invention of Chris Marker
2020
as Self
Chris Marker: Never Explain, Never Complain
2015
as Self (archive footage)
Agnès Varda: From Here to There
2011
as Self
In Chris Marker's Studio
2011
as Self
La Traversée du désir
2009
as Self
The Beaches of Agnès
2008
as Self (archive footage)
One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich
1999
as Self (voice) (uncredited)
Level Five
1997
as Self (voice) (uncredited)
Rush - Voyage à Moscou
1990
as Self
Tokyo Days
1988
as Self (voice) (uncredited)
A. K.
1985
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Tokyo-Ga
1985
as Self (uncredited)
Sans Soleil
1983
as Self (uncredited)
May Days
1978
as Self
Kashima Paradise
1973
as Narrator (voice)
The Sixth Side of the Pentagon
1968
The Koumiko Mystery
1965
as Narrator
The Lovely Month of May
1963
as Self / Interviewer (voice)
Lumière Award to Chris Marker
1962
as Self
Letter from Siberia
1957
as Stargazer (uncredited)