A biography for Chris Markerhasn’t been written yet.
“What I'm passionate about is History, and politics interest me only insofar as it is the cross-section of History in the present.”
“He liked the fragility of those moments suspended in time. Those memories whose only function is to leave just a trace in memory.”
“Nothing distinguishes memories from ordinary moments, only later do they make themselves known, from their scars.”
“Rarely has reality needed so much to be imagined.”
“I chose a pseudonym, Chris Marker, pronounceable in most languages, because I was very intent on traveling.”