A story about Chris Marker
Conducting research on CM in Paris in July 1991, I was at the Vidéothèque de Paris watching his film Le Fond de l’Air est Rouge (aka Cat Without a Grin) when i took a coffee break in the cafe there. My heart beat faster as I spotted the man himself in the corner of the cafe. He went to a press conference and we met back a bit later to talk (my french quite rusty). I admired his watch, a time travel piece imported from the year 4001.
I saw him one other time at the San Francisco Int. Film Festival after a screening of The Last Bolchevik. Later we communicated as I was building a CM website.
Recommended films, in no particular order: La Jetee; Sans Soleil; The Last Bolchevik; Level Five; If I Had 4 Camels; Letter from Siberia; The Koumiko Mystery; Chats Perchés; Le Fond de l’Air est Rouge; Slon Tango; Statues Also Die; One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich; Owls at Noon; À Valparaiso (writer); Far From Vietnam (omnibus film); Remembrance of Things to Come; Immemory (CD-ROM).
