Immemory: A cd-rom by Chris Marker

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EAN/UPC/ISBN Code 9781878972392


With the republication of this groundbreaking CD-ROM, please join D.A.P. in celebrating the twentieth anniversary of Exact Change, the extraordinary independent publisher of experimental literature that has brought back into print some of the most important primary avant-garde documents of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, even as it continues to publish pioneering contemporary works. Founded in 1989 by Damon Krukowski and Naomi Yang, musicians from the bands Damon & Naomi and Galaxie 500, Exact Change has published works by Guillaume Apollinaire, Louis Aragon, Antonin Artaud, John Cage, Leonora Carrington, Giorgio de Chirico, Salvador Dali, Morton Feldman, Alice James, Alfred Jarry, Franz Kafka, Lautreamont, Gerard de Nerval, Fernando Pessoa, Raymond Roussel, Philippe Soupault, Gertrude Stein, Stefan Themerson, Denton Welch and Unica Zurn, among others. Renowned French filmmaker, photographer, writer and traveler Chris Marker has never respected the boundaries between genres. His landmark 1962 film La Jetee is made up almost entirely of stills, its one moving image as thrilling as the Lumieres" films must have been for their original audiences. Since then, Marker"s films (including the features Sans Soleil and Level Five) have continued to stretch the definition of the art, merging at times with the essay, political manifesto, personal letter, art installation--even the computer game. In Immemory, Marker uses the format of the CD-ROM to create a multilayered, multimedia memoir. The reader investigates "zones" of travel, war, cinema and poetry, navigating through photographs, film clips, music and text, as if physically exploring Marker"s memory itself. The result is a veritable twenty-first century Remembrance of Things Past, an exploration of the state of memory in our digital era. With it, Marker has both invented a literary form and perfected it. System Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4.11 or later, including 10.5 Leopard.