Chris Marker met twentysomething Koumiko Muraoka by chance at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. Marker’s voiceover tells us (Marker never appears in Le mystère Koumiko), “She is not an example of anything.” She is irreducibly herself, hence mysterious. “Japan is all around her”—Japan, which can be categorized, its people statistically analyzed, but to little avail, for […]
Daily Archives: August 27, 2007
Sleepy Hollow is a shantytown of mostly Mexican field workers outside a small California town. At a “good fellowship dance,” a white boy picks a fight with Paul Rodriguez, and in the ensuing ruckus a police officer is assaulted. Another officer is killed in a police car crash. Although he is innocent of all wrongdoing, […]
