Sans Soleil
Synopsis
A woman narrates the contemplative thoughts of a seasoned world traveler, meditations on time and memory expressed in words and images from places as far-flung as Japan, Guinea-Bissau, Iceland, and San Francisco.
Schedule
1st Screening
25 November 2021, 15:30 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.
