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Chris Marker –
a farewell to movies
12.3.2008 – 29.6.2008
Galerie
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Chris Marker, Cape Verde Islands, 1981, Photograph from Staring Back, 2007 © Chris Marker
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This exhibition brings together for the first time several works by Chris Marker (b. 1921), one of the most high-profile figures of recent media history. While films such as La jetée and Sans soleil are regarded as cinema classics, Marker’s intellectual curiosity has produced pioneering contributions in other fields: from the written word and photography to books, video, CD-Rom, and multimedia installations like Silent Movie, a work celebrating the hundredth anniversary of the cinematic medium. His works link language and image in a particularly haunting manner. Important themes for Marker such as memory and social commitment feature prominently in his latest work, Staring Back: powerful portraits of people over six decades, met by chance while traveling, or contemporary historical figures such as Simone Signoret, Akira Kurosawa, Salvador Dalí, or Fidel Castro. Marker’s shot selection reveals a characteristic interplay between the perspective of the observer and the observed.
On Chris Marker
Chris Marker lives and works in Paris. He was born as Christian-François Bouche-Villeneuve in July 1921 in Neuilly-sur-Seine near Paris. From 1937 to 1939 he studied philosophy under Jean-Paul Sartre. Since he was able to escape to Switzerland as a member of the Resistance towards the end of the Second World War he has good memories of this country. Compared to the figure of Marker the private person has remained to a large extent unknown, not least because of his almost legendary refusal to allow himself to be portrayed. A discretion that he certainly does not accord to other people in the same way. It seems important that his work can live its own life separated from the physical presence or even only visual appearance of its creator – not dissimilar to a cat, which in Marker's universe counts among the higher creatures.
Publication accompanying the exhibition
Chris Marker. Abschied vom Kino / A Farewell to Movies
With pictures and texts by Chris Marker, introduced by Andres Janser
D/E, approx. 64 pages, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, CHF 18
Program accompanying the exhibition
Grenzen sind da, um überschritten zu werden / Limits are there to go beyond
Discussion at the exhibition
Tuesday, 20 May 2008, 8 pm, Galerie
With Bice Curiger, curator and publicist, Zurich
Bill Horrigan, curator, Columbus/Ohio
Thomas Tode, film publicist, Hamburg
Chair: Andres Janser
"Il m’écrivait …" / "Er schrieb mir …" / "He wrote me …"
Thursday, 29 May 2008, 5 pm, Vortragssaal / Lecture Hall
Andres Janser talks about the voice in the work of Chris Marker
Guided Tours
| March 2008 |
| Tues, 18.3., |
18.30 |
Cynthia Gavranic, Curator, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich |
| Tues, 25.3., |
18.30 |
Andres Janser, Curator, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich
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| April 2008 |
| Tues, 1.4., |
18.30 |
Cynthia Gavranic |
| Sun, 6.4., |
15.00 |
Andres Janser |
| Tues, 8.4., |
18.30 |
Andres Janser |
| Tues, 15.4., |
18.30 |
Verena Formanek, Head of Collections, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich
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| Tues, 22.4., |
18.30 |
Barbara Junod, Curator, Grafiksammlung Museum für Gestaltung Zürich
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| Tues, 29.4., |
18.30 |
Barbara Junod
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| May 2008 |
| Sun, 4.5., |
15.00 |
Andres Janser |
| Tues, 6.5., |
18.30 |
Barbara Junod |
| Tues, 13.5., |
18.30 |
Verena Formanek |
| Tues, 20.5., |
18.30 |
Cynthia Gavranic |
| Tues, 27.5., |
18.30 |
Jan Sahli, Senior Assistant at the Seminar for Cinema Studies at the University of Zurich
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| June 2008 |
| Sun, 1.6., |
15.00 |
Jan Sahli |
| Tues, 3.6., |
18.30 |
Andres Janser |
| Tues, 10.6., |
18.30 |
Verena Formanek |
| Tues, 17.6., |
18.30 |
Cynthia Gavranic |
| Tues, 24.6., |
18.30 |
Barbara Junod |
Special guided tours (also in English) on request: Tel +41 (0)43 446 67 12 or christine.kessler@zhdk.ch
With the support of
Ambassade de France en Suisse
Films by Chris Marker at the Filmpodium of the City of Zurich
April and May 2008, Nüschelerstrasse 11, 8001 Zurich, www.filmpodium.ch
- Thomas Tode introduces Chris Marker's film work, followed by a showing of the film Sans soleil: 3 April, 6 pm
- Sans soleil, 1982: 3 April, 6.30 pm; 8 April, 8.45 pm
- Le joli mai, 1962: 5 April, 5.30 pm; 16 April, 8.15 pm
- La jetée, 1962, and other shorts: 7 April, 6.15 pm; 15 April, 6.15 pm
- Loin du Viêt-Nam (Godard, Ivens, Klein, Lelouch, Marker, Resnais, Varda), 1967:
9 April, 6.15 pm; 22 April, 8.45 pm - Le fond de l‘air est rouge, 1977: 19 April, 5 pm; 30 April, 8.15 pm
- Stschastje (Happiness, Alexander Medvedkin), USSR, 1934: 24 April, 6.15 pm
- Le tombeau d‘Alexandre, 1993: 24 April, 8.45 pm; 29 April, 6.15 pm
- Un maire au Kosovo, 2000, and Chats perchés, 2004: 6 May, 6.15 pm;
14 May, 8.45 pm
Press Clips
Film-Bulletin April 08
taz 22.04.08
WOZ 27.03.08
Tages-Anzeiger 25.03.08
Landbote 25.03.08
students.ch 18.03.08
Neue Zürcher Zeitung 13.03.08
art-tv.ch 12.03.08
Film-Bulletin March 08
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