{"id":8372,"date":"2012-12-29T20:00:38","date_gmt":"2012-12-30T01:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=8372"},"modified":"2012-12-29T20:00:39","modified_gmt":"2012-12-30T01:00:39","slug":"a-quick-chris-marker-round-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/8372","title":{"rendered":"A quick Chris Marker round-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Pictures at an Exhibition<\/em> (2008)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tour through a simple 3D computer gallery, stopping to view each of Marker&#8217;s mash-up portraits, some of which I&#8217;ve seen before in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/5308\">Immemory<\/a><\/em>.  Posted on Marker&#8217;s youtube page a few years ago.  Gentle, repetitive piano music by Arvo Part. Probably named after the piano suite by Mussorgsky.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image12\/pictures1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image12\/pictures2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Silent Movie<\/em> (1995)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nine minutes of classical-Hollywood-evoking footage of a glamorously-lit, black-and-white Catherine Belkhodja, star of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/5308\">Level Five<\/a><\/em>, first in motion smoking a cigarette in different poses, then as a series of stills. The stills of Catherine with eyes closed then open can&#8217;t help but evoke <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/103\">La Jetee<\/a><\/em>. This was part of a video installation for the Wexner Center in Ohio, along with essays and photos and posters and more videos &#8211; &#8220;a highly personal response to the one-hundredth anniversary of the invention of cinema.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image12\/silentmovie.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I also rewatched <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/605\">We Maintain It Is Possible<\/a><\/em>, and liked it better than last time, and the English version of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/573\">Chats Perches<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The owl is to the cat as the angel is to the man.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pictures at an Exhibition (2008) Tour through a simple 3D computer gallery, stopping to view each of Marker&#8217;s mash-up portraits, some of which I&#8217;ve seen before in Immemory. Posted on Marker&#8217;s youtube page a few years ago. Gentle, repetitive piano music by Arvo Part. Probably named after the piano suite by Mussorgsky. Silent Movie (1995) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[369,7,21],"class_list":["post-8372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2000s","tag-chris-marker","tag-shorts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8372"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8414,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8372\/revisions\/8414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}