Chris Marker
In 1951, he formed Argos Films with Philippe Lifchitz. It was a niche production company with the aim of making films on art which were inspired by the work of the Italian documentary filmmaker Luciano Emmer. Dauman produced the first films of Pierre Kast, Jean Aurel and Chris Marker. In 1953, they gained an advance from a distributor that enabled them to produce Alexander Astruc's "Crimson Curtain", which received a "prime a la qualite". After that they produced Alain Resnais' "Night and Fog" and two films by Chris Marker, "Sunday in Peking" and "Letter from Siberia".