Chris Marker was a French writer, photographer, documentary film director, multimedia and film essayist with his best known piece being La Jatee created in 1962. He has had some good credibility because of his abilities in his creative, and analysis aspects.

Mark was almost an ominous man, frequently refusing to do interviews or talking too much about his work. People have even debated on where he was even born, but it is known that he had joined the French resistance during WWII, and later in his life joined the United States Air Force. This was speculated as a lie but was later proven by Chris Marker’s journalism after the war, working for a number of companies in journalism, writing about political commentaries, poems, and film reviews. This led him to travel the world doing photography and journalism, eventually publishing his first novel. “His elusiveness was a tool for creation. It furnished him with freedom”. Clearly Mark was not a person for fame, as he didn’t give many interviews, which allowed him to peruse Directing and film making with a clear head, as it says he went with freedom.

La jatee

Marker became international after creating this short film which was made as a photomontage using up to 800 images that Chris had taken throughout the 26 counties he had been to over the years. The film is about a post-nuclear experiment in time travel, where a survivor is obsessed over distant and disconnected memories about a pier with the image being a mysterious woman and a mans death. The scientists in the “time travel” choose this survivor for their studies. The man travel back in time to contact the mysterious woman, but ends up discovering that the mans death at the pier was his own. This is supposed to reflect the fragility of memory and how possible it is to become destroyed and distorted.