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
1 Comment »
Leave a comment
-
Recent
- Build your online corporate mullet
- Electric phosphate smelting furnace used in the making of elemental phosphorus in a TVA chemical plant in the Muscle Shoals area, Alabama (LOC)
- Nathaniel Dorsky, a ‘Buddhist Filmaker’
- Patty Chang’s Fountain – It’s the sound that makes it happen…
- Cinaste Article on Chris Marker
- Interacting With Act React
- The Milwaukee Art Museum
- Robert Schaller
- Cineaste
- Olafur’s Lights
- Frame That Spam! Cool article from WIRED
- Pete Goldlust
-
Links
-
Flickr Photos
More Photos
Dannon – help me out. Is there another article considered here? The assignment required that you post on two articles and I can’t seem to find the other one. Interested to hear what you have to say about Klein.
Also interested in what you have to say about Marker. Glad this article served as an introduction, but I don’t get any sense over why it directed you to take a look at his work. Thoughts on the contents of the article? On Marker? Even why he is now of interest to you? Did the article have something to say about “La Jetee.”
Mostly a cursory comment on what you read, I don’t get a sense of your take on what you read, or how you engaged with it. I’ll need to be able to read more of your take on your reading in the next go round of blogs. The post should be a balance between the article and you, and I am not getting enough of either here.
Maybe in the post about the William Klein article? Where is that?
Also – re: Marker. Check out what the library has of his, is getting of his. I believe a copy of “The Last Bolshevik” is on order. DVD includes “Happiness.”
Also, I highly recommend “Sans Soleil”