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A Grin Without a Cat
Sun, May 15 | 2pm | TMT
A Grin Without a Cat is Marker’s epic explo- ration of a period he called the “Third World War”: 1967 to 1977. (After the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, Marker reworked the film.) Divided into two parts, Marker explores, in a distinct personal essay-meets-found foot- age-meets-agitprop style, the Vietnam War, Che Guevara’s death, May 1968, and upheavals in Prague and Chile. Through collage and com- mentary, A Grin Without a Cat resists defini- tive closure on a remarkable, and traumatic, decade.
DIRECTOR: Chris Marker.
1977. 180 min. France. Color. English. 35mm.
Sans Soleil
Thu, May 19 | 7:30pm | TMT
An unmissable classic, Marker’s iconic film is a breed of travelogue that invites the viewer not just to far-flung locales, but into the very nature of images themselves. Letters from Marker’s stand-in, the fictitious Sandor Krasna, are narrated by a woman as a mélange of footage—some shot by Marker, some stock footage—unspools. Capturing daily life and rituals alike in Japan and Guinea-Bissau, the documentary unpacks the nature and inherent limitations of human memory.
DIRECTOR: Chris Marker.
CAST: Alexandra Stewart (voice). 1983. 100 min. France. Color. English. 35mm.
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