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Categories: Film: 4 Text passages
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1. ![]() of the images & the image tells the story.»[4] Chris Marker himself is often quoted with a remark from «Sans soleil», made by the character of Yamaneko, the computer expert: images simply want to be what they are, «that is, [more] ![]() |
2. ![]() The voice between commentary and correspondence When referring to what is probably Marker's best-known film, «Sans soleil» (1983, F), discussions always focus on commentary. Marker himself published the scripts of his early films under the [more] ![]() |
3. ![]() in the names of yet others from the artificial voices appearing in the shape of Hayao Yamaneko's synthesizer in «Sans soleil» to the computerized voice in «Level Five.» For Marker, the problem of authorship in general crystallizes in [more] ![]() |
4. ![]() the utopian promise of happiness to the iconoclastic condition of its acousmatic withdrawal (as in the beginning of «Sans soleil», where a randomly edited series of images alternates with a black screen, accompanied by a voice speaking about [more] ![]() |