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Filmmaker · France

Chris Marker

Died in 2012

Christian Bouche-Villeneuve, known as Chris Marker, was born on 29 July 1921 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, while readily claiming to have been born in Mongolia. He took part in the Resistance, wrote after the war for the journal Esprit and created at Éditions du Seuil a series of illustrated travel books. He refused to be photographed and sent pictures of cats instead. He then moved on to video, then to CD-ROM and digital images. He died in Paris on 29 July 2012, his ninety-first birthday.

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