CAT LISTENING TO MUSIC (dir. Chris Marker) 1994
here’s a short film by Chris Marker called Cat Listening to Music. it’s about his cat, listening to music. sometimes the cat has its eyes closed. sometimes the cat is alert and staring at the camera, as if interrogating the very idea of the agency one maintains regarding their own image. sometimes the cat is lost in thought, the wistful music suggesting that he (she?) might be fondly recalling a past lover. sometimes the cat is making music of its own.
Chris Marker — the avant-garde savant behind the likes of SANS SOLEIL and LA JETEE, which Criterion has released together on Blu-ray today — created this short in 1994, when the idea of culling together cheap digital imagery and bending it towards a greater purpose was starting to catch on. much like cats, it was a subject with which Marker was already quite familiar.
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I have watched this way too many times. It would be nice if...could just make movies
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