Watch Order
0 / 6 watchedSix key films and shorts in release order, including the La Jetee short.
About Chris Marker
Chris Marker worked mostly in shorts and essay films, mixing travel footage, still photos and wry commentary. This guide picks six key titles, opening with Letter from Siberia in 1957 and the twenty eight minute photo novel La Jetee in 1962, the time travel story later echoed by 12 Monkeys. Le Joli Mai in 1963 portraits Paris street life, and A Grin Without a Cat in 1977 reviews the fate of the global left.
The later run covers Sans Soleil in 1983, a drifting letter film shot in Japan, Guinea Bissau and Iceland, and A.K. in 1985, a set diary of Akira Kurosawa filming Ran. Watch in release order. The films do not connect as a story, and the sequence shows his move from voice led travel essays to layered video montages about memory.
Good to know
These are standalone essay films with no shared continuity, so there is no separate chronological order worth listing. La Jetee is a short built almost fully from stills, and most viewers start there or with Sans Soleil. Marker died in 2012, so this run is complete. Le Joli Mai is The Lovely Month of May and Sans Soleil is Sunless in English listings, which helps when searching streaming catalogs.
