I was struggling a lot to choose an icon, there is a lot of people who inspired me in so many different ways that to pick only one seems almost impossible to me. I have broad background in arts and I specialize in visual arts. During my last years I was very influenced by cinema, specially the French New Wave and more precisely the Left Bank.
Among some of the film maker that were part of the Left Bank, there is one that really interest me, his name is Chris Marker and he is well-known by films like La Jetée (1962), A Grin Without a Cat (1977), San Soleil (1983). The latter is one of his most relevant jobs because it is representative of his style, using cinema as a medium to build an essay, creating narratives lines with a constant feedback of possible poetic answers and questions around the topic of human memory.
Although he is universally known as a film maker, he was also a writer a photographer and later in his career he makes an incursion also into the multimedia art. In 1997 he works in a multimedia piece called Inmemory. In Immemory, he uses the format of the CD-ROM to create a multi-layered, multimedia memoir. The reader investigates "zones" of travel, war, cinema and poetry, navigating through photographs, film clips, music and text, as if physically exploring Marker's memory itself.
What I really find interesting in his work is how he is constantly moving in-between the boundaries of genres to convey his own personal ideas about different topics and also how his curiosity has made him experiment with a medium as cinema media and rethinking its traditional use.
Here I post one of his not really famous works, that I really like, It is called Bestiaire and It is compose by three short films: Chat Ecoutant de la musique, An Owl is an Owl, and Zoo piece.