The Case of the Grinning Cat + A Short Story

Director: Chris Marker, Chris Marker, Gan Bi, Chris Marker, Chris Marker, Chris Marker, Chris Marker, Chris Marker

2004 / 64min / DCP

A beguiling detective story showcasing Marker’s signature combination of intellectual rigor and charm, this freewheeling meditation on early 21st-century French political life, public art, and celebrity scandals begins with the filmmaker’s quest to discover the meaning behind the mysterious graffiti of a grinning yellow cat that began to appear around Paris not long after 9/11. Marker’s last completed feature, which finds his marvelous mind as plucky and agile as ever. Screens with A Short Story, the latest short film from Chinese poet and filmmaker Bi Gan (Long Day’s Journey Into Night), a fairy tale that follows the relationship between man and cat.