The home movie is one of the first forms of a moving image that everyone encounters. Before you are even aware of what a camera is, you have most likely been filmed by one. Seeing that image played ...

Though they were made 20 years apart and are completely different in form—one a post-apocalyptic science-fiction short told through still photographs, the other a sprawling documentary ...

In conjunction with the exhibition Words and Places: Etel Adnan, the Wattis Institute, and the graduating class of the Graduate Program in Curatorial Studies at the California College of the Arts ...

Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a new movie coming out that week. This week: Instead of pegging our picks to a new release, we’re running through the best movies of 1983 ...

Fresh Air's critic-at-large reviews a new DVD set featuring two masterpieces by French filmmaker Chris Marker: 1962's La Jetee and 1984's Sans Soleil. The first is a science-fiction story set in a ...

Most of French director Chris Marker’s films are documentaries (at least, of a sort), but he remains best known internationally for his beautiful 1962 “La Jetée,” a half-hour science-fiction film, ...

Mr. Marker was born Christian François Bouche-Villeneuve in 1921. He got his start as a journalist writing for the French intellectual journal Esprit and Cahiers du Cinema, and became affiliated with ...

With its eccentric eye, its exotic locations, its peripatetic ways, zipping between the economic miracle of Japan and recently liberated Guinea-Bissau, and its philosophical musings, Sans soleil can ...

French director Chris Marker's short "film novel" from 1962, La Jetée, couples sequential still photographs with narration to tell the tale of a time-traveller from a post-apocalyptic future coming to ...