Chris Marker: Immemory
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Author: Marker, Chris
Immemory was first published by filmmaker Chris Marker in 1998 (French) and 2002 (English), using a CD-ROM to create a multi-layered, mixed-media memoir. The reader investigates "zones" of travel, war, cinema and poetry, navigating through image and text as if physically exploring Marker's memory itself. This publication reinvents this unique work for the printed page, a project the author dreamed up, titled, and began working on with Exact Change before his death.The result is a veritable 21st-century Remembrance of Things Past, an exploration of the state of memory in our era. With it, Marker both invented a literary form and perfected it, just before the digital format he chose for the experiment was quickly rendered obsolete.Filmmaker, photographer and writer Chris Marker never adhered to the conventions of a particular art form. Each of his films pushes the boundaries of its medium, merging at times with the essay, political manifesto, personal letter, art installation and even, finally, a computer game. Chris Marker (1921–2012) served in the French Resistance, and then the US Air Force, during World War II and worked as a journalist while honing his film career. He received international acclaim with La Jetée in 1962, and became a critical voice in film theory and production as well as a widely admired “cult” artist, a filmmaker's filmmaker.
ISBN 9781878972446. Exact Change. pb. 480 pages. 1010 colour ills. 20.3 x 15.2 cm.
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Immemory was first published by filmmaker Chris Marker in 1998 (French) and 2002 (English), using a CD-ROM to create a multi-layered, mixed-media memoir. The reader investigates "zones" of travel, war, cinema and poetry, navigating through image and text as if physically exploring Marker's memory itself. This publication reinvents this unique work for the printed page, a project the author dreamed up, titled, and began working on with Exact Change before his death.The result is a veritable 21st-century Remembrance of Things Past, an exploration of the state of memory in our era. With it, Marker both invented a literary form and perfected it, just before the digital format he chose for the experiment was quickly rendered obsolete.Filmmaker, photographer and writer Chris Marker never adhered to the conventions of a particular art form. Each of his films pushes the boundaries of its medium, merging at times with the essay, political manifesto, personal letter, art installation and even, finally, a computer game. Chris Marker (1921–2012) served in the French Resistance, and then the US Air Force, during World War II and worked as a journalist while honing his film career. He received international acclaim with La Jetée in 1962, and became a critical voice in film theory and production as well as a widely admired “cult” artist, a filmmaker's filmmaker.
ISBN 9781878972446. Exact Change. pb. 480 pages. 1010 colour ills. 20.3 x 15.2 cm.
available