“For much of his life, Marker functioned as a foreign correspondent, a romantic leftist in the Malraux mode travelling the world from West Africa to Siberia. Most of his early films were personal travelogues—short features notable for their wry, poetic voiceover narration and serendipitous approach to foreign societies.” (via The Lost Futures of Chris Marker by J. Hoberman | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books)