Independent British distributors Soda Pictures have detailed their upcoming
collecion of films directed by Chris Marker (
La Jetee). The dual format release will be available for purchase on June 2.
This collection of Chris Marker films consists of three works that pre-date
La Jetée, the featurette that firmly planted his name as a filmmaker, as well as a series of seven shorter films that span each decade of his career thereafter. These remarkable curios reveal much about him, his ideas and his visuality, as well as his take on the modern world from an artistic point-of-view — from China, Siberia and Israel in the 1950s to the Pentagon, art collectives, cheshire cats, haikus and early new media.
Released in conjunction with a major exhibition at Whitechapel Gallery, London, and featuring a 32-page booklet with a new piece by writer and curator Chris Darke (
Rediscovering Chris Marker), alongside a seminal early piece by Roger Tailleur (
Markeriana: A Scarcely Critical Description of the Work of Chris Marker).
BLU-RAY
Sunday In Peking (Dimanche à Pékin, 1956, 22 min)
Letter From Siberia (Lettre de Sibérie, 1958, 62 min)
DVD1
Sunday In Peking (Dimanche à Pékin, 1956, 22 min)
Letter From Siberia (Lettre de Sibérie, 1958, 62 min)
Description Of A Struggle (Description d'un combat, 1960, 60 min)
DVD2
The Sixth Side Of The Pentagon (La Sixième face du Pentagone, 1968, 27 min)
The Embassy (L'Ambassade, 1973, 20 min)
Theory Of Sets (Théorie des ensembles, 1991, 11 min)
Three Video Haikus (Trois Vidéo Haikus, 1994, 3 min)
Blue Helmet (Casque bleu, 1996, 26 min)
E-CLIP-SE (1999, 8 min)
The Case Of The Grinning Cat (Chats perchés, 2004, 59 min)