Chris Marker Quotes
When men die, they enter history. When statues die, they enter art. This botany of death is what we call culture.
Marker, Chris, and Alain Resnais, directors. Les statues meurent aussi [Statues Also Die]. Présence Africaine, 1953.
Like the Mexican Muralist Diego Rivera, he produced gigantic murals with historical and social themes. He actually included lynchings and KKK meetings and Mormon persecution in his works which offended many Missouri politicians, but then he was probably in a better position to do so than any artist in Missouri.
See Wakil Ahmad Muttawakil {608419} and Jamal’s other quotation {604664}
Very few countries make such overt recognition of the arts and their cultural heritage a part of their constitutions. Even nations which are fanatic about their cultures such as France do not have such overt constitutional provisions.
Chris Marker was a French writer, photographer, documentary film director, multimedia artist and film essayist. His best known films are La Jetée (1962), A Grin Without a Cat (1977) and Sans Soleil (1983). Marker is usually associated with the Left Bank subset of the French New Wave that occurred in the late 1950s and 1960s, and included such other filmmakers as Alain Resnais, Agnès Varda and Jacques Demy.
