Ten Lives of a Cat: A Film about Chris Marker

Ten Lives of a Cat: A Film about Chris Marker (2023) is a documentary film directed by Matthew O'Toole.

Ten years after the death of iconic French filmmaker, Chris Marker. A filmmaker, hoping to rediscover that unique sensibility against the uncertainty of the new century, returns to the places synonymous with those incomparable and unforgettable films-- From the cat cemetery of Sans Soleil, to the mausoleum of The Last Bolshevik; The caves of Level Five to the rooftops of The Case of the Grinning Cat. A biographical portrait of one of the 20th century's greatest and most misunderstood filmmakers.

Cast

Chris Marker

Kaibyō (archive footage)

Daphne Alexander

Narrator

Vladimir Mayakovsky

Namesake of a Cat (archive footage)

Moon Jae-in

Self

Nikol Pashinyan

Self

Tyson Smith

Cameo

Serj Tankian

Cameo