Le Fond de L’air Est Rouge
Synopsis
Directed in 1977 and reedited in 1998, this saga of the left as seen by Chris Marker resonates in the decades following May 68. In three hours and two parts, Chris Marker traces ten years of history of the left, from revolts to the exercises of the state.
Schedule
1st Screening
24 November 2021, 13:00 GMT+7
Credits
Chris Marker
Chris MARKER (1921-2012, France) is regarded as one of the most innovative film and documentary makers of the 1960s and 1970s. The 16mm documentary Olympia 52 about the 1952 Helsinki Olympic Games was his first film. Marker was best known for his award-winning documentary Sans soleil (1982) about human memory. His documentaries about Beijing, Siberia and Cuba have come to be regarded as classics. Not much is known about his life: Marker (pseudonym of Christian François Bouche-Villeneuve) shunned interviews and invented biographical ‘data’. Before focusing in the early 1950s on non-dogmatic, Marxist-oriented documentaries, he wrote several articles, essays, poems and a novel. Chris Marker passed away in 2012 at the age of 91.
