Immemory: A cd-rom by Chris Marker

About this book

Markers multimedia memoir traversing the world through photographs film clips music and text Filmmaker photographer writer and traveler Chris Marker (19212012) never respected the boundaries between genres. His landmark 1962 film La Jete is made up almost entirely of stills its one moving image as thrilling as the Lumires films must have been for their original audiences. Markers films (including the features Sans Soleiland Level Five) continued to stretch the definition of the art merging at times with the essay political manifesto personal letter art installation even the computer game. In Immemory Marker used the format of the CD-ROM to create a multi-layered multimedia memoir. The reader investigates zones of travel war cinema and poetry navigating through photographs film clips music and text as if physically exploring Markers memory itself. The result is a veritable 21st-century Remembrance of Things Past an exploration of the state of memory in our digital era. With it Marker has both invented a literary form and perfected it. System requirements: for Macintosh computers running System 7.5 through Mac OS 9 (including the classic environment of Mac OS X).