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Past Film/Video | Documentaries | Classics
101 Films You Need to See Before Graduation
$8 members $12 general public$9 adults 55 and over$6 studentsFree for Ohio State students
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Chris Marker’s category-defying documentary is a mind-bending travelogue, a haunting meditation on memory, and so much more.
Chris Marker’s peerless Sans soleil is the record of an unseen man wandering the globe (Japan, San Francisco, Guinea-Bissau, Iceland) and writing letters to a distant woman who is made to see the world through his eyes. Marker explores time and memory through a surreal synthesis of images and video. His contemporary Sarah Maldoror, the subject of recent Wex exhibition Sarah Maldoror: Tricontinental Cinema, provided footage she shot of liberation fighters in Guinea-Bissau that Marker incorporated into the film. Voted the third best documentary of all-time in a 2014 Sight and Sound poll. (103 mins., DCP)
In 1995, the Wexner Center presented Silent Movie, the first solo gallery exhibition devoted to the French poet, filmmaker, and photographer Marker. The exhibition was curated by then Curator of Media Arts Bill Horrigan, who passed away in May. These screenings are presented in his memory.
IMAGE CAPTIONSans soleil, courtesy of Janus Films.
We are excited to continue our series of screenings featuring films that everyone should see before they graduate—whether that is from Ohio State or from the school of film fandom! Working with faculty and listening to student feedback, we’re presenting an enticing and eclectic array of classics that will complement and expand your appreciation of film history.
Rohauer Collection Foundation
Greater Columbus Arts Council
The Wexner Family
Ohio Arts Council, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts
CampusParc
The Columbus Foundation
Every Page Foundation
Mellon Foundation
Axium Packaging
Nationwide Foundation
Michael and Anita Goldberg
Vorys, Sater, Seymour, and Pease, LLP
Joyce Shenk
Rebecca Perry and Ben Towle
Lachelle Thigpen
Past Film/Video
Sans soleil
