In his decade of making documentary short films, Resnais established his interest in and talent for collaboration with leading figures in other branches of the arts: with the painters who were the subjects of his early works; with writers (Eluard in "Guernica", Cayrol in "Nuit et Brouillard", Queneau in "Le Chant du styrène"); with musicians (Darius Milhaud in "Gauguin", Hanns Eisler in "Nuit et Brouillard", Pierre Barbaud in "Le Chant du styrène"); and with other film-makers (Resnais was the editor of Agnès Varda's first film, "La Pointe courte", and co-directed with Chris Marker "Les statues meurent aussi"). Similar collaborations underpinned his future work in feature films.