Jean-Claude Rousseau

Flamenco (2024)

'Her triumph was the dance named Flamenco. What a tragic dance! It is, so to speak, all passion expressed in three acts: desire, seduction, and pleasure. ...

Où sont tous mes amants? (2024)

Souvenir d'Athènes (2023)

"He came to read. He opened two or three books; historians and poets. But he barely read for ten minutes before giving it up." C. ...

Welcome (2022)

Thirty-five years after "Keep in Touch", Jean-Claude Rousseau's filmmaking returns to the city of Carl Andre and Hollis Frampton. It's like a miniature remake of "Rear Window", but a New York version – Rear Window as seen by a minimalist artist from New ...

The Tomb of Kafka (2022)

"You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be quiet still and solitary. ...

A Floating World (2021)

Between rain and clearer spells, in the footsteps of Ozu in today's Japan, people met, wordless encounters… Also some seismic events, a trembling of the ground which does not interrupt the course of the film. And just for the sake of a story: a forgotten ...

Une Vie Risquée (2018)

Short film commissioned by the Cinemathèque Suisse to celebrate Jean-Marie Straub's 85th birthday. ...

La Villa (2017)

So Far, So Close (2017)

A journey to Kyoto. From the temple's highest terrace visitors have a view of the city in the distance, under the changing sky. ...

Delft dans le lointain (2017)

Experimental short film by Jean-Claude Rousseau ...

Chansons d'amour (2016)

A man spends his time sitting by a window that overlooks a pool. ...

Passion (2015)

At first glance, Jean-Claude Rousseau's films seem like quickly outlined sketches. They are snapshots of various situations and locations, as in this program of nine miniatures, shot in hotel rooms and parks, at the shore of a lake, and – in the longest ...

Under a Changing Sky (2014)

Sous un ciel changeant. Jean-Claude Rousseau uses his signature black frames to create Durasian elisions between painterly, Corot-conjuring tableaux. ...

Remembering Wavelengths (2014)

Jean-Claude Rousseau homage to Michael Snow's film Wavelength. ...

Partage des Eaux (2014)

At first glance, Jean-Claude Rousseau's films seem like quickly outlined sketches. They are snapshots of various situations and locations, as in this program of nine miniatures, shot in hotel rooms and parks, at the shore of a lake, and – in the longest ...

Fantastique (2014)

Experimental short film by Jean-Claude Rousseau ...

Éclaircie (2013)

L'air d’être là (2013)

Saudade (2012)

"My eyes are imprisoned/ Weeping with great longing". Soèdade (saudade) — "longing" or "yearning" — is a Portuguese word that does not have a precise translation in English. ...

Eaux profondes (2012)

The loneliness of the white fish in the goldfishes' aquarium. ...

Senza mostra (2011)

Where may the reds and goldens be? Where may the so promised city be? The lover beholds his fate in a faded Venice. ...

White Night (2011)

No movie overview is available. ...

Un autre jour (2011)

A day at the beach. ...

Attic (2011)

Last Breath (2011)

Veduta (2010)

Veduta means "view". A plan of the city of Florence. ...

A Day (2010)

L'Appel de la forêt (2008)

L'Appel de la forêt follows the call of nature, but, as it is always the case with Jean-Claude Rousseau, in the form of an image. At first glance we see a green wall and a door-frame next to it. After a second glance the disturbing aspect of the scene cry ...

Twice Around the World (2007)

De son Appartement (2007)

The continuing demand for high standards is what sets Rouseau's work apart. What makes this film distinctive is the way Rousseau explicitly returns to the source of his creative inspiration. So here he is at home reciting «Bérénice» to himself, whilst ...

Pas cette nuit (2007)

In a darkened room a dark figure holding numerous flickering candles walks towards the camera. The single frame, however, keeps the secret of the scene to itself. ...

Europa 2005 – 27 octobre (2006)

Inspired by Rossellini's Europa '51 Straub-Huillet made a film consisting of two pans of a street corner in Paris. ...

False Start (2006)

A man is waiting in a hotel. ...

Trois fois rien (2006)

A triptych formed by FAIT LES AMUSEMENTS, CONTRETEMPS, and COMME UNE OMBRE LEGERE. The viewer is challenged to find and occupy his own position, to find his perspective in a similar way the filmmaker has found it on a look-out-point in the mountains. ...

Non rendu (2005)

A double bed with untouched sheets. A man is sitting in the room, hat and coat placed next to him. He is waiting. He gets up and walks into an adjoining room. Background sounds turn into voices emerging from the next room, with the places steadily getting ...

Une vue sur l'autre rive (2005)

Faibles amusements (2004)

A short film by Jean-Claude Rousseau. ...

Lettre à Roberto (2002)

Rooms must be vacated before noon on the day of departure. An extra night will be charged for all late departures." Jean-Claude Rousseau has used this banal, well-known notice as a synopsis for his film. Taken out of context, thereby rendering it mysteriou ...

The Enclosed Valley (1995)

My films are like that: in a room, but looking out onto an open sky. [...] I can't really say it except to repeat that Bresson note, 'that without a thing changing, everything is different.' The film exists. The fiction is set up, and we believe in it. The ...

The Antiquities of Rome (1989)

A structuralist work composed of static, long-duration shots of Roman ruins and architectural details, all filmed on Super 8. The film operates without a traditional narrative or dialogue, relying on fixed compositions to document the interplay of light an ...

Keep in Touch (1987)

Rousseau is shown sitting in a room, waiting. Voices leave messages on his answering machine (sound); a table lamp (light) and an empty writing pad (memory) adopt the meaning due to them under this arrangement. In between, the flowing movements of nocturna ...

Venise n'existe pas (1984)

"if he leaned out the window, if he did that movement, if he risked to fall or to drop the camera, if he leaned to fall, then he would see and it would be seen, through the doorway, inhabited islands, churches and palaces where the boats dock. ...

Jeune femme à sa fenêtre lisant une lettre (1983)

Jean-Claude Rousseau's Jeune femme à sa fenêtre lisant une lettre is not only his first medium-length film, but a chance to discover this filmmaker whom Jean-Marie Straub has called, along with Frans Van de Staak and Peter Nestler, the greatest working i ...

The Tomb of Kafka (2022)

"You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be quiet still and solitary. ...

Une Vie Risquée (2018)

Short film commissioned by the Cinemathèque Suisse to celebrate Jean-Marie Straub's 85th birthday. ...

Chansons d'amour (2016)

A man spends his time sitting by a window that overlooks a pool. ...

Remembering Wavelengths (2014)

Jean-Claude Rousseau homage to Michael Snow's film Wavelength. ...

L'Appel de la forêt (2008)

L'Appel de la forêt follows the call of nature, but, as it is always the case with Jean-Claude Rousseau, in the form of an image. At first glance we see a green wall and a door-frame next to it. After a second glance the disturbing aspect of the scene cry ...

Twice Around the World (2007)

De son Appartement (2007)

The continuing demand for high standards is what sets Rouseau's work apart. What makes this film distinctive is the way Rousseau explicitly returns to the source of his creative inspiration. So here he is at home reciting «Bérénice» to himself, whilst ...

Lettre à Roberto (2002)

Rooms must be vacated before noon on the day of departure. An extra night will be charged for all late departures." Jean-Claude Rousseau has used this banal, well-known notice as a synopsis for his film. Taken out of context, thereby rendering it mysteriou ...

Jeune femme à sa fenêtre lisant une lettre (1983)

Jean-Claude Rousseau's Jeune femme à sa fenêtre lisant une lettre is not only his first medium-length film, but a chance to discover this filmmaker whom Jean-Marie Straub has called, along with Frans Van de Staak and Peter Nestler, the greatest working i ...