Le Dépays

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by Chris Marker

Type

Filmmakers' writings

Subject

Director > Chris Marker

Keywords

Chris Marker, photographer

Publishing date

2024

Publisher

Film Desk Books

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Hardcover • 88 pages
6 x 8 ¾ inches (15.5 x 22 cm)

ISBN

979-8-9864463-4-9

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Book Presentation:
This is the first English language edition of Chris Marker’s 1982 photo-essay, Le Dépays. Lovingly adapted from the original design, it features Marker’s own translation astride some of his most exquisite, yet rarely seen, black-and-white photography. Realized over the same years as its film companion, Sans Soleil, the book traces similar themes—cats and owls and Japan—but without ever leaving Golden-Gai for Guinea-Bissau. Musing among department store maneki-neko and dreamers on the metro, wandering between Tokyo and no-place at all, this is nevertheless a unique glimpse of Marker feeling very much himself and quite at home; that is, delightfully disoriented.

“Inventing Japan is just another way of getting to know it . . . Trust appearances, consciously confuse the decor with the drama, never worry about understanding, just be there—dasein—and everything will come your way. Well, something, at least . . .”—Chris Marker, from Le Dépays

Chris Marker, 1921–2012. Filmed, photographed, traveled, loved cats. With a new introduction by writer and artist Sadie Rebecca Starnes.

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