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In 1952 Marker made his first film, Olympia 52, a 16mm feature documentary about the 1952 Helsinki Olympic Games.

In 1953 Marker collaborated with Resnais on the documentary Statues Also Die.

The film examines traditional African art such as sculptures and masks, and its decline with coming of Western colonialism.

The film won the 1954 Prix Jean Vigo, but was banned by French censors for its criticism of French colonialism.