Born in 1921 in Neuilly-sur-Seine in France, Chris MARKER was a cinematic essayist and audio-visual poet. After the Second World War, he began as a writer, publishing his first book in 1949. In the 1950s, he turned to documentary filmmaking. Among his classic works from this period are Letter from Siberia (1957), The Pier (1962), and The Merry Month Of May (1963). His films include A Grin without a Cat and One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich (2000). He also explored video and computer-generated imagery with a continued emphasis on the intersection between personal and political themes in films such as The Case of the Grinning Cat (2004).