Cinaste Article on Chris Marker

After spending some time with the qaurterly film journal cinaste, I can say that I am likely to spend more time with it in the future. I have subscribed to a few different film magazines in the past, but I have always found that I never have time to read all the content in the magizine, and that a new one arrives before I get around to it. Pretty Soon I have accumulated a large stack of unread magizines, that will never be perused in my world that has no shortage of things to listen to, look at and read. Cinaste, with it’s seasonal publication avoids this delema. I have all with yet to spend with the latest issue.

In this issue I found quite a few articles that sparked my interest. I will continue to blog about different articles and the paths they have led me on, but I am going to start today with just one of them.

This quarters article on film maker Chris Marker was one I found particularly fascinating. First and foremost it introduced me to a filmaker that I had never heard about, but one whom I feel is sure to become a favorite of mine. After reading the article I was able to watch Marker’s famouse film, La Jetee

The magazine includes an article about Marker and an article written by him in which he talks about Alexander I. Medvedkin an important but nearly forgotten (at least at one time) russian filmmaker and subject of Markers own film, The Last Boshlevek. There is also a page dedicated to the films of Chris Marker available on DVD. 

This, immersion, of sorts into the world of Chris Marker seems to be a reoccurring thin in Cinaste, with filmaker William Klein explored in a similar set of articles that also include an interview. I look forward to more Cinaste, and writing more in this blog entry…

Chris Marker