In a preview of Sunday's Boston Globe online, there is a great article in Movies section by critic Mark Feeny on the French filmmaker Chris Marker (born Christian Francois Bouche-Villeneuve). In one of his own films, Marker introduces himself as "CHRIS MARKER, THE BEST KNOWN AUTHOR OF UNKNOWN FILMS," which definitely shows the man's humor. While Marker has requested his films not be embeddable from YouTube, you can still watch the short film here.
He sounds like quite the interesting filmmaker, and Feeny compares him to the famous Soviet Dziga Vertov (of The Man with the Movie Camera), in their similar love of film, and in their "both being so constitutionally radical, artistically even more than politically." One can read a profile of Marker here. One can also read many articles on the filmmaker here, in a site devoted to him.
This is one director I will have to explore.
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