Chris Marker has a brilliant mind and heart and appetite for life, and…

Susan Sontag
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Chris Marker has a brilliant mind and heart and appetite for life, and it's a privilege to travel with him to whatever he chooses to remember and to evoke. He is one of cinema's all time greats - the most important reflective or non-narrative filmmaker after Dziga Vertov.
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Photography is, first of all, a way of seeing. ✨ Susan Sontag (2007). At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches, p.162, Macmillan
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Chris Marker has a brilliant mind and heart and appetite for life, and it's a privilege to travel with him to whatever he chooses to remember and to evoke. He is one of cinema's all time greats - the most important reflective or non-narrative filmmaker after Dziga Vertov.

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