Lesser known video works by Chris Marker can be seen in the Chris Marker collection Bestiaire aka Petit Bestiaire from 1990. In these short videos Marker focuses his camera on one or another species from the animal kingdom.

Chat écoutant la musique is one of three films from the collection, and we rank it as our favorite.

In this short video we’re treated to a soundtrack of melancholic piano music, glimpses of Chris Marker’s creative living space, some of his musical instruments (including a classic Yamaha DX-7) and, of course, footage of his beloved cats napping and listening to music.

French filmmaker Chris Marker will forever be one of our most beloved visionnaires. His dystopian points of view are beautifully articulated in short films like La Jetée (1962) and Junkopia, and in feature length experimental films like Level Five (to name just a couple of our favorites).