BAMcinématek Presents Month-Long Retrospective on French Director Chris Marker
Zack Sharf
This August, BAMcinématek will screen the iconic films of French director Chris Marker in a special retrospective series chronicling the master cine-essayest. The event begins on August 15 with the North American theatrical premiere of “Level Five” and will continue through Thursday, August 28. “Five,” about a video game programmer who is haunted by her work, is a retro-futuristic essay reflecting on the traumas of World War II and early internet culture. Like most of Marker’s work, it is a deeply personal cinematic representation of weighty themes that uses collages of moving images, photography, and text.
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After premiering in Brooklyn, the brand new restoration of “Level Five” will tour theaters nationwide, including Los Angeles, Seattle, Austin, Boston, and Chicago.
Full Screening Schedule:
2, 4:30, 7, 9:30pm: “Level Five”
2, 7pm: “Far From Vietnam”
4:30, 9:30pm: “Level Five”
4:30pm: “Le Joli Mai”
2, 8pm: “Level Five”
4:30, 9pm: “Level Five”
7pm: “A Letter From Siberia,” “Sunday in Peking”
4:30, 9pm: “Level Five”
7pm: “The Battle of the Ten Million”
4:30, 9pm: “Level Five”
7pm: “Be Seeing You,” “Class of Struggle,” “2084”
4:30, 7, 9:30pm: “Level Five”
5, 6:30, 8, 9:30pm: “La Jetée,” “Statues Also Die”
2, 4:30, 7, 9:30pm: “Sans Soleil”
2, 8:30pm: “The Last Bolshevik”
4:30pm: “A Grin Without a Cat”
7:30pm: “Description of a Struggle,” “Valparaíso”
9:15pm: “One day in the Life of Andrei Aresenevich,” “The Train Rolls On”
7:30, 9:15pm: “Prime Time in the Camps,” “The Sixth Side of the Pentagon,” “The Embassy”
7:30pm: “Bestiary,” “Les homes de la baleen,” “Three Cheers for the Whale”
9pm: “The Koumiko Mystery,” “Matta”
7, 9:15pm: “Remembrance of Things to Come,” “If I Had Four Dromedaries”
