I will have spent my life trying to understand the function of remembering, which is not the opposite of forgetting, but rather its lining. We do not remember. We rewrite memory much as history is rewritten. How can one remember… — Chris Marker Copy Share Image
I will have spent my life trying to understand the function of remembering, which is not the opposite of forgetting, but rather its lining.… — Chris Marker Copy Share Image
Who said that time heals all wounds? It would be better to say that time heals everything - except wounds. With time, the hurt… — Chris Marker Copy Share Image
“...he understood there was no way to escape Time, and that this moment he had been granted to watch as a child, which had… — Chris Marker Copy Share Image
I chose a pseudonym, Chris Marker, pronounceable in most languages, because I was very intent on traveling. — Chris Marker Copy Share Image
In another time I guess I would have been content with filming girls and cats. But you don’t choose your time. — Chris Marker Copy Share Image
Nothing sorts out memories from ordinary moments. It is only later that they claim remembrance, when they show their scars. — Chris Marker Copy Share Image
What I'm passionate about is History, and politics interest me only insofar as it is the cross-section of History in the present. — Chris Marker Copy Share Image
We feel more emotion... before an amateur photograph linked to our own life history than before the work of a Great Photographer, because his… — Chris Marker Copy Share Image
