With the theatrical release of the digitally restored 1997 film Level 5, Brooklyn's own Bam Cinematek is hosting a rare retrospective of Chris Marker, one of the most singular voices in cinema history.Marker passed on in 2012. But as a writer, photographer, visual essayist and multimedia artist, Marker leaves an impressive body of work that spans more than half a century. His uncategorizable cinematic oeuvre touched upon politics, technology, cinema, artists, time and memories. He was an acute observer of the past and present, and cinema's own soothsayer.The retro includes Sunless, one of my absolute favorites; La Jetée, a seminal time-travel, sci-fi classic; Bestiary Series, his short visual haikus on animals; Statues Also Die (with Alain Resnais) and Valparaiso (with Joris Ivens), his collaborative efforts; The Six Side of...
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- 8/13/2014
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