French filmmaker Chris Marker was one of the world's most highly regarded and experimental figures in cinema. Marker's classic fiction film and best known work, LA JETTE, was made in 1962, but his first feature-length documentary was produced a decade before. His documentary work includes profiles of the artists Matta and Christo, and film directors Tarkovsky and Kurosawa. What often sets Marker's films apart are their deliberate use of a restricted visual palette, achieved by adopting the techniques of cinema's silent era and using dissolves, subtitles and montage effects.