His documentaries included "Cuba Si", a favourable 1961 profile of Fidel Castro and the Cuban revolution, and 1967's "Far from Vietnam" (Loin du Vietnam), a collaboration with other leading European directors opposed to US involvement in southeast Asia.
After several years working for a collective aiming to promote film-making by France's industrial workers, Marker won further acclaim for 1977's "Le fond de l'air est rouge" (A Grin without a Cat), a nuanced reflection on the revolutionary events of May 1968 and their aftermath.
In 1985, he released "A.K.", a documentary profile of Kurosawa that was shot during the Japanese director's filming of his epic "Ran".
His final short film, "Leila Attacks", was released on the Internet in 2007.
Gilles Jacob, the president of the Cannes film festival, described Marker as a "curious spirit, an indefatigable film and video maker, a cat-loving poet, a secret person and an immense talent."
The Cinematheque Francaise paid tribute to Marker's unique mastery of the "art of poetic film-making."
Cinema critic Jean-Michel Frodon, a friend of Marker, said the director had died at his home in Paris on Sunday, his 91st birthday.
For a film-maker who repeatedly returned to the themes of memory and history, Marker was guarded about the details of his own life.
He was born Christian-Francois Bouche-Villeneuve in the wealthy Paris suburb of Neuilly but told some interviewers that he had been born in Mongolia. He eschewed publicity, refusing to be photographed or to present his films.
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