Far from his grave being kept clean, it was unmarked until 1967, when a Texas Historical Marker was erected in the general area of his plot, the precise location being unknown.

Chris Marker (; 29 July 1921 – 29 July 2012 ) was a French writer, photographer, documentary film director, multimedia artist and film essayist.

Marker was born Christian François Bouche-Villeneuve.

Some sources and Marker himself claim that he was born in Ulan Bator, Mongolia.

Marker was a philosophy student in France prior to World War II.

In 1949 Marker published his first novel, Le Coeur net ( The Forthright Spirit ), which was about aviation.

The film was shot in two weeks by Marker while he was traveling through China with Armand Gatti in September 1955.

While making La Jetee, Marker was simultaneously making the 150-minute documentary essay-film Le joli mai, released in 1963.

It was the last film in which Marker includes " travel footage " for many years.

In 1984, Marker was invited by producer Serge Silberman to document the making of Akira Kurosawa's film Ran.

Marker created a 19-minute multimedia piece in 2005 for the Museum of Modern Art in New York City titled Owls at Noon Prelude: The Hollow Men which was influenced by T. S. Eliot's poem.

( Marker was represented in Agnes Varda's 2008 documentary " The Beaches of Agnes " by a cartoon drawing of a cat, speaking in a technologically altered voice.

The avatar was created by Exosius Woolley and first appeared in the short film / machinima, " Ouvroir the Movie by Chris Marker.

** Note: In a 1995 interview Resnais states that the final version of the commentary was a collaboration between Marker and Jean Cayrol ( source: Film Comment ).

** Note: Marker was eventually credited as a writer for this one, apparently, he wrote the dialogue ( Film Comment ).

** Note: This was edited by Marker essentially, this film is a 27-minute postscript to Le Joli Mai assembled from leftover footage and organized around a new commentary ( Film Comment ).

** Note: This gem was written by Marker.

Ohio Historical Marker for the Battle of Phillips Corner, which was part of the Boundary Dispute between Michigan and Ohio.

I was especially intrigued by the institution of the Marker and his function in rating master-songs .... I conceived during a walk a comic scene in which the popular artisan-poet, by hammering upon his cobbler's last, gives the Marker, who is obliged by circumstances to sing in his presence, his come-uppance for previous pedantic misdeeds during official singing contests, by inflicting upon him a lesson of his own.

The London Town Square was designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1971, Marker number 2988.

His conversion of diosgenin into progesterone by a four-step process now known as Marker degradation was an important step in mass production of all steroidal hormones, including cortisone and chemicals used in hormonal contraception.

Runyon was pleased with the changes and later said, " Lady for a Day was no more my picture than Little Miss Marker, which, like the former picture, was almost entirely the result of the genius of the scenario writers and the director who worked on it.

Like he had with montages of landscapes and indigenous art, Marker created a film essay that contrasts and juxtaposes a variety of lives with his signature commentary ( spoken by Marker's friends, singer-actor Yves Montand in the French version and Simone Signoret in the English version ).

From this initial collection of filmmakers with left-wing political agendas, Marker created the group S. L. O. N.

File: Treaty of Fort Jackson Historical Marker. JPG | A historical marker near Union Springs shows the Indian Territory boundary line created by the Treaty of Fort Jackson.

The series was created by writers Roger Marshall and Anthony Marriott with the aim of getting away from " square-jawed " heroes of the type featured in Hollywood movies, an aim shared by the actor chosen to play Marker — Alfred Burke.

Kaldor City is a human city of the future on an unspecified alien world, created by Chris Boucher for the Doctor Who serial The Robots of Death broadcast in 1977, and reused in his Past Doctor Adventure Corpse Marker in 1999.

Marker created the bassline, while Erikson wrote a jangly guitar riff.

Marker had been dubbing between audio tracks, resulting in scratchy feedback ; he sampled the sound and tuned it to fit the song, unintentionally created by an alternative hook.

The schools new address is 280 Marker Road.

Look pioneered a new binding, that set it apart from Marker in freestyle.

An abandoned rest area is located on the southbound side, opposite the new Rest Area / Visitor Center at Mile Marker 20.

The episode also introduces the new regular character of Detective Inspector Percy Firbank ( played by Ray Smith )— a local police officer whose interest is piqued by Marker.

The move to Chertsey sees the series return to its traditional format of a new case each week for Marker.

It was abolished in 1993, when it was replaced by two new offices, the Warden of the Swans and the Marker of the Swans.

Since sour crude is more common than sweet crude in the U. S. part of the Gulf of Mexico, Platts has come out in March 2009 with a new sour crude benchmark ( oil marker ) called " Americas Crude Marker ( ACM )".

Marker is a municipality in Østfold county, Norway.

Basmo fortress is located in the north-western part of Marker municipality in Østfold near the Swedish border on an isolated mountain outcropping between Rødenessjøen and Hemnessjøen.

In 1952 Marker published an illustration essay on French writer Jean Giraudoux, Giraudoux Par Lui-Même.

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

After working as assistant director on Resnais's Night and Fog in 1955, Marker made Sunday in Peking, a short documentary " film essay " that would characterize Marker's unique film style for most of his career.

After working on the commentary for Resnais ' film Le mystère de l ' atelier quinze in 1957, Marker continued to form his own cinematic style with the feature documentary Letter from Siberia.

An essay on the gradual destruction of Siberia's culture and individuality, the film combines footage that Marker shot in Siberia, old newsreel footage, cartoons, stills and, at one point, an illustration of Alfred E. Neuman from Mad Magazine, all accompanied by Marker's signature commentary, which takes the form of a letter from the director to his audience.

In 1960 Marker made Description d ' un combat, a documentary on the State of Israel which reminisces on the country's past and future.

The following year Marker published Coréennes, a collection of photographs and essays on the conditions of Korea.

Beginning in the Spring of 1962, Marker and his camera operator Pierre Lhomme shot 55 hours of footage interviewing random people on the streets of Paris.

Marker had been working on a film about Chile with ISKRA since 1973.

Marker then began work on one of his most ambitious films, A Grin Without a Cat, released in 1977.

In the 2007 Criterion Collection release of La Jetée and Sans Soleil, Marker included a short essay, " Working on a shoestring budget ".

Marker also reminds the reader that only one short scene in La Jetée is of a moving image, as Marker could only borrow a movie camera for one afternoon while working on the film.

Marker died on July 29, 2012.

** Note: Marker present commentary for this " somber work about the daily lives of fishermen on Brittany's Île de Sein " ( Film Comment ).

** Note: Marker edited this ( mostly ) animated science-fiction exstentialist short and ( possibly ) collaborated on the script ( Film Comment ).

** Note: Marker collaborated on the commentary on this documentary about the destruction of Kashima and Narita ( Film Comment ).

* Literature on Chris Marker

A Michigan Historical Marker at what is now the northwest corner of Second and Franklin streets in Jackson commemorates an anti-slavery convention of men on July 6, 1854.

* Bennington Battlefield on the Historical Marker Database

It is West of Mile Marker 646 on the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, which stretches from the Mexican border at Brownsville, along the entire coast of the Gulf of Mexico to St. Marks, Florida.

Marker on the Harris County Annex 2 Building in Downtown Houston, indicating the site where Sam Houston lived from 1837 to 1838