Chris Marker: resistance fighter, escape artist, film-maker – in pictures

As a retrospective on the French experimental film-maker's career opens in London, here's a selection of images of his most influential work
  
  


Le Joli Mai (1962), Chris Marker
Le Joli Mai (1962). Marker is said to have shot more than 50 hours of footage on the streets of Paris at the end of the Algerian war, in 1962, for this film essay. Photograph: La Sofra, Paris Photograph: Whitechapel
Chris Marker. Le Joli Mai ( 1962).
Le Joli Mai (1962), Chris Marker. Photograph: La Sofra, Paris Photograph: Whitechapel Gallery
Chris Marker. La Jetee Workbook (Undated). Exercise Book.
La Jetée workbook, Chris Marker. The 1962 sci-fi film about the aftermath of world war three is composed of still shots. Photograph: Royal Film Archive, Belgium Photograph: Whitechapel Gallery
Chris Marker: La Jetee (1962).
La Jetée (1962), Chris Marker. Photograph: British Film Institute Photograph: British Film Institute
Chris Marker: La Jetee (1962).
La Jetée (1962), Chris Marker. Photograph: British Film Institute Photograph: British Film Institute
Chris Marker: La Jetee (1962).
La Jetée (1962), Chris Marker. Photograph: British Film Institute Photograph: British Film Institute
Chris Marker. Ouvroir, The Movie (2010).
Ouvroir, the Movie (2010), Chris Marker. One of the film-maker's last works, Ouvroir follows an avatar of Marker through Second Life. Photograph: Centre Pompidou Photograph: Centre Pompidou
 

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