Editing Chris Marker (section)

{{Short description|French filmmaker (1921–2012)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name        = Chris Marker
| image       = Chris_Marker.jpg
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| birth_name  = Christian François Bouche-Villeneuve
| birth_date  = {{Birth date|1921|7|29|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Neuilly-sur-Seine]], France
| death_date  = {{death date and age|2012|7|29|1921|7|29|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Paris]], France
| occupation  = Film director, photographer, journalist, multimedia artist
}}

'''Chris Marker''' ({{IPA|fr|maʁkɛʁ|lang}}; 29 July 1921 – 29 July 2012) (born ''Christian-François Bouche-Villeneuve'') was a French writer, photographer, documentary film director, [[multimedia]] artist and [[Essay#Film|film essayist]]. His best known films are ''[[La Jetée]]'' (1962), ''[[A Grin Without a Cat]]'' (1977) and ''[[Sans Soleil]]'' (1983). Marker is usually associated with the [[Left Bank Cinema|Left Bank]] subset of the [[French New Wave]] that occurred in the late 1950s and 1960s, and included such other filmmakers as [[Alain Resnais]], [[Agnès Varda]] and [[Jacques Demy]].

His friend and sometime collaborator [[Alain Resnais]] called him "the prototype of the twenty-first-century man."<ref name="Wakeman">Wakeman, John. World Film Directors, Volume 2. The H. W. Wilson Company. 1988. 649–654.</ref> Film theorist [[Roy Armes]] has said of him: "Marker is unclassifiable because he is unique... French Cinema has its dramatists and its poets, its technicians, and its autobiographers, but only has one true essayist: Chris Marker."<ref name="Wakeman" />