CHRIS MARKER Staring Back 12 May 2007 - 12 August 2007 wexner center for the arts

A catalogue with text by Molly Nesbit (Artforum), Horrigan, Marker will accompany the exhibition > www.wexarts.org

A Star captures Stars

French filmmaker, writer, and multimedia artist Chris Marker has studied with his camera faces of people with whom he demonstrated at political events, famous friends and colleagues (Simone Signoret or Akira Kurosawa), strangers - citizens which caught his eye on his travel through Asia, South America, Scandinavia, Africa, Russia, ... "I stare" and "They stare" as Marker says. Almost 200 black-and-white photographic portraits give us a Staring Back to the past six decades. Each face has star qualities - it's in your eye!

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Born in France, Chris Marker is one of the most influential filmmakers of the post-war era. He studied with Jean Paul Satre and collaborated with Alain Resnais. Marker became international renowned with the sci-fi short film La jetée about nuclear experimentation and time travel.

foto: Courtesy of the artist / on view at the Wexner Center for the Arts May 12-August 12, 2007