Country: France
Year: 1972
Duration: 17'
For a part of humanity, whales have often been a fundamental means of survival. Then, with the advent of industrialization, and with it great capital, whale hunting became a system of profit. And the massacre began. An ecological film made by Marker and Ruspoli on the eve of the signing of an international agreement which would have put an end to whale hunting, in which the large mammals are represented as the witnesses of the imbalance between man and nature.
Biography
film director
Chris Marker
Chris Marker (born Christian François Bouche-Villeneuve; Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, 1921 - Paris, France, 2012) made Les statues meurent aussi with Alain Resnais in 1953. He then turned to documentary filmmaking with works as Lettre de Sibéria (1957) and Le joli mai (1963), and directing in an almost fifty-years-long career many other films, including the well-known La jetée (1962), Sans soleil (1983) and Le tombeau d’Alexandre (1993), which made him one of the most important militant experimental filmmakers of French cinema.
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia essenziale/essential filmography
Olympia 52 (1952), Les statues meurent aussi (coregia/codirector Alain Resnais, cm, doc., 1953), Lettre de Sibérie (doc., 1957), ¡Cuba Si! (mm, doc., 1961), La jetée (cm, 1962), Le joli mai (doc., 1963), Loin du Vietnam (collettivo/collective, doc., 1967), La sixième face du pentagone (cm, doc., 1968), La bataille des dix millions (mm, doc., 1971), Vive la baleine (cm, doc., 1972, co-regia Mario Ruspoli), L’ambassade (cm, 1973), Le fond de l’air est rouge (doc., 1977), Junkopia (cm, doc., 1981), Sans soleil (doc., 1983), A.K. (doc., 1985), Mémoires pour Simone (doc., 1986), Le tombeau d’Alexandre (doc., tv, 1993), Level Five (1997), Chats perchés (mm, tv, 2004).
Declaration
film director
“Each whale that dies communicates, like a prophecy, an image of our own death.” (Chris Marker)
Cast
& Credits
regia/directors
Chris Marker, Mario Ruspoli
montaggio, suono/film editing, sound
Chris Marker
musica/music
Lalan
voci/voices
Casamayor, Valerie Mayoux
produzione/production
Argos Films
contatti/contacts
Tamasa Distribution
www.tamasa-cinema.com
Chris Marker, Mario Ruspoli
montaggio, suono/film editing, sound
Chris Marker
musica/music
Lalan
voci/voices
Casamayor, Valerie Mayoux
produzione/production
Argos Films
contatti/contacts
Tamasa Distribution
www.tamasa-cinema.com
