Chris Marker Quotes
Nothing sorts out memories from ordinary moments. It is only later that they claim remembrance, when they show their scars.
In another time I guess I would have been content with filming girls and cats. But you don’t choose your time.
When men die, they enter history. When statues die, they enter art. This botany of death is what we call culture.
...after a certain quantity, photos apparently taken by chance, postcards chosen according to a passing mood, begin to trace an itinerary, to map the imaginary country that stretches out before us.
I chose a pseudonym, Chris Marker, pronounceable in most languages, because I was very intent on traveling.
And always the animals from each trip you bring back a gaze a pose a gesture that points to the truest of humanity better than images of humanity itself
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.
