To Chris Marker, An Unsent Letter: At Jetty's End: A Tribute to Chris Marker, 1921-2012

Film - Feature | November 30 | 7 p.m. |  PFA Theater

Speaker/Performer: Emiko Omori

Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Director Emiko Omori in person!

Chris Marker was legendary for his resistance to tributes, to summings up, to slatherings of praise. He was notably reclusive, though surrounded by a coterie of fellow dabblers and all things small and furry. Thus it is supremely appropriate that Emiko Omori’s fond hommage to Marker should be a letter “unsent.” Collating the recollections of familiars and fans, such as Tom Luddy, David Thomson, Peter Scarlet, and Marina Goldovskaya, Omori has fashioned a global romp through Marker’s intentionally murky past. His exemplary duo, La jetée and Sans soleil, is pithily placed at the center of a life obscure and desirous. Perhaps Omori’s greatest tribute to Marker is in honoring his beautifully manicured mystery, the ambiguous outlines of his life and art. A Letter Unsent arrives post-haste nonetheless.

Tickets: $9.50 General Admission,  $6.50 UC Berkeley faculty/staff, non- UC Berkeley students, 65+, disabled persons, 17 & under,  $5.50 BAM/PFA and UC Berkeley students

Event Contact: bampfa@berkeley.edu, 510-642-0808