Marker’s Madeleines: the Essay beyond Text and Film
This paper focuses on Chris Marker’s status as an essayist but, instead of taking his cinematic works, it explores his early print essays Commentaires (1967), Le Dépays (Chrismarker.org), and his later digital works – Immemory (Gorgomancy.net) and Ouvroir (SecondLife.com). This study is based on the argument that the essay is a malleable form and that it serves its primary function of expressing thought through a process of combining disparate elements in a non-linear format. Further, it argues that this... ⇨ Read more