Chris Marker was a French photographer and film director. One of Chris’ more famous films was the 1962 film La Jetée, constructed almost entirely from black & white photographs and telling the story of a man sent back in time to research past events to help the future. The story is set in a post nuclear war environment. The film is the inspiration for both the film and TV series, Twelve Monkeys.
Chris was rarely interviewed and was often happy to be represented as a cat. More on that shortly. In his later years Chris turned some of his attention to Second Life. Chris passed away in July 2012 at the age of 91, but his work lives on in Second Life on the sim of Ouvroir.
The sim of Ouvroir opened in 2008 and was timed to open simultaneously with Chris’ real life exhibition at the Museum für Gestaltung in Zürich.
The sim was created with the assistance of MosMax Hax aka Max Moswitzer. Then there’s the cat, the real cat was known as Guillaume-en-Egypte, who also became a furry entity in Second Life.
