La mémoire numérique de Chris Marker. Reflets et désirs des images sans soleil

Chris Marker had been one of the first directors to open his cinema to electronic and digital images and mean his art as an exploration of such "sunless" images. If Letters from Siberia and La jetée aimed at examining the nature of memory and cinematic image, unveiling its structure and machinery, it is with Sunless, Level Five, and especially with Immemory and the recent experiences of Second Life, that digital memory becomes consubstantial with visual memory in his work. Marker's questioning of the ontological status of images, of their mediality and immateriality, of their ethic and political significance, concerns some of the most actual issues about our present experience of virtual images.