The Ideology of Chris Marker: Film History, Documentary Form, and Dialectics
Marker’s experimental documentary, Sunless, was heralded by critics and admirers as a return to personal filmmaking after a decade of radical, collectively produced films. Ostensibly a documentary about Japanese culture, Sunless blasts apart the realist documentary tradition, continuing the radical aesthetic ideology of Vertovian cinema. Marker’s revival of Vertov’s montage techniques are used in this film to study the ontology of truth in documentary images and narrative films from the past. Sunless features sequences from Tokyo, the Il de France, Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau, and outer...
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