Monday, August 25, 2014, 7:30 PM
Brooklyn Academy of Music Rose Cinemas
30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217

Marker investigates the psychic and historical insights that can be gleaned from landscape and geography in these intellectually adventurous docu-essays. In French with English subtitles.

Description of a Struggle (1960)
Run time: 51min

Marker’s report from the then only 12-year-old nation of Israel views the country as a collection of signs, “invoking the need for an x-ray vision that can penetrate and decipher the physical and historical landscape” (Catherine Lupton).

… A Valparaíso (1962)
Directed by Joris Ivens
Run time: 28min

Marker penned the lyrical voiceover text for Ivens’ beautifully photographed paean to the Chilean city of Valparaíso—its people and their traditions, its vertiginous geography, and its tumultuous history.

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