Chris Marker, an enigmatic figure in French cinema, has avoided publicity and was reluctant to project their films, but is often ranked with his fellow Alain Resnais and Jean-Luc Godardas a teacher of art , died Sunday at home in Paris, on his birthday 91.
His death was reported by Agence France-Presse, but the cause did not occur.
Marker, who has worked well in the 80's, made over two dozen films over a period of six to ten year career. Known as a pioneer of film test, was most admired for "La Jetée" (1962) and "Sans Soleil" (1983), who explored the time, memory and history in a fascinating style and unconventional.
"La Jetée" ("El Embarcadero") was 28 minutes of film made almost entirely of still images that focuses on a man who travels between past and future to see a photo of his disturbing childhood.
The most surprising moment of the film is when, for a few seconds a few years, the stills to make way for moving images of a woman who sleeps with his eyes open, staring at the camera and flash.
Janet Harbord British film scholar, who wrote the 2009 book "Chris Marker: La Jetée," the movement causes a "shock near the erotic or religious experience, or perhaps both," and sends a while the magic and mystery of the half.
The critic Pauline Kael called "La Jetée", "quite possibly the film of science fiction, however, made larger." The critic and film historian David Thomson went further, declaring in a 2002 article in British newspaper the Guardian that "La Jetée" could be "the only film ever made is essential."
The topic may seem known by contemporary audiences as it has inspired a new version of Hollywood, "12 Monkeys". Directed by Terry Gilliam and starring Bruce Willis and Brad Pitt, in 1995 the film was generally considered by critics as less fundamental than the original.
Another masterpiece of marker, "Sans Soleil" ("no one"), is narrated by a woman who reads aloud the letters he receives from a camera in their nomadic travels in Japan, Iceland, Africa and other distant destinations. The letters describe beautiful places, like a blinding white desert, a musical scale and a temple dedicated to cats.
The cats appear throughout the film, and bearing the name of the marker in two: the documentary "A smile without a cat" (1977) and "The Case of the Smiling Cat" (2004). The first film that examines the movement of the New Left from the Vietnam war and the expulsion of Chilean President Salvador Allende in 1973. This film documents the political mood in France after the attacks of September 11 and includes images of smiling cat graffiti began appearing in Paris and then. Unpublished photographs of the director general, show a slight man, bald behind the camera with her cat, Guillaume.
Policy markers were clear in other studies as well as "Cuba Yes" (1961), on Castro's Cuba, "Le Joli Mai" (1963), produced by 55 hours of interviews with French nationals on their attitude towards the Franco-Algerian war, and "The Last Bolshevik" (1993), conceived as a series of letters to the Soviet director Aleksandr Medvedkine.
He also produced "Far from Vietnam", a documentary made in 1967 in collaboration with Godard and Resnais, who opposed the U.S. intervention in Vietnam.
A marker of recent works, in late 1990, was an interactive CD-ROM called "Immemory", consisting of more than 20 hours of images, movies, music, text and sounds divided into several sections, including poetry, film, travel and photography.
Little is known about the life of the marker, which apparently was the same director, who called himself "the unknown author best known films," he wanted.
Most biographies say she was born Christian François Bouche-Villeneuve, in Neuilly sur Seine, France, 29 July 1921, and studied philosophy withJean-Paul Sartre at the end of 1930. It may be apocryphal, but some sources say that his love for the Magic Marker pen inspired him to change his name.
Doubts also surrounded his hometown. Marker said the film historian Thomson during a meeting in Berkeley in 1980 that Thomson "Biographical Dictionary of Film" was a mistake and in fact was born in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
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