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Jean-Claude Rousseau is one of the most unconventional lone fighters in French cinema. His predominantly short films deal with no less than cinema per se: space, time and movement. As abstract as each of these concepts might seem taken alone, Rousseau assigns their ultimate designation as an integral whole: A person (or no-one, for that matter) moves (or does not move) within a room (or looks into another room) for a certain amount of time.
Most Popular Jean-Claude Rousseau Trailers
Total trailers found: 54
29 March 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.
26 June 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.
08 January 2018
Short film commissioned by the Cinemathèque Suisse to celebrate Jean-Marie Straub’s 85th birthday.
06 February 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.
13 October 2006
Inspired by Rossellini's Europa '51 Straub-Huillet made a film consisting of two pans of a street corner in Paris.
07 June 2016
A man spends his time sitting by a window that overlooks a pool.
11 March 2022
“You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait.
06 February 2010
Veduta means "view". A plan of the city of Florence.
04 July 2004
A short film by Jean-Claude Rousseau.
01 January 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.
01 January 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 contribution – on a restaurant terrace.
01 January 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.
02 July 2002
Rooms must be vacated before noon on the day of departure. An extra night will be charged for all late departures.
07 February 2012
The loneliness of the white fish in the goldfishes’ aquarium.
05 September 2014
Sous un ciel changeant. Jean-Claude Rousseau uses his signature black frames to create Durasian elisions between painterly, Corot-conjuring tableaux.
08 August 2019
A hotel room and a few sweets, their wrappers stacked like gold leaf... An interview with Chantal Akerman and ongoing coverage of the 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris, and what emerges is a genuine tragedy, as simple as Racine's.
01 January 2014
Jean-Claude Rousseau homage to Michael Snow’s film Wavelength.
01 January 2010
Jean-Claude Rousseau is a filmmaker who believes in the natural power of images. The rigid compositions create something like a pure state, which constantly changes during the period of its viewing – like an empty and simultaneously detail-packed field.
09 August 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.
07 February 2011
A day at the beach.
07 July 2022
Thirty-five years after "Keep in Touch", Jean-Claude Rousseau’s filmmaking returns to the city of Carl Andre and Hollis Frampton.
01 January 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.
23 April 2016
A journey to Kyoto. In late autumn, as the maple leaves turn red, city dwellers cross paths in the shaded walkways of the Imperial Park.
25 October 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.
16 September 2011
Where may the reds and goldens be? Where may the so promised city be? The lover beholds his fate in a faded Venice.
01 January 2017
Experimental short film by Jean-Claude Rousseau
12 June 2004
Three friends lounge around on pillows after having lunched on the terrace. One of them leaves staggering.
01 January 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.
18 March 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.
22 October 2009
The title is playing with us, claiming that the film is a detective story. Witch in a way it is not untrue.
01 January 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 in Europe.
09 July 2025
As the orchestra choir settles into the church choir, the trombonist blows into his instrument as a warm-up.
21 November 1989
A structuralist work composed of static, long-duration shots of Roman ruins and architectural details, all filmed on Super 8.
08 March 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.
01 January 2014
Experimental short film by Jean-Claude Rousseau
04 July 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.
08 April 2005
A double bed with untouched sheets. A man is sitting in the room, hat and coat placed next to him. He is waiting.
01 January 2006
A man is waiting in a hotel.
08 July 2010
A short film by experimental filmmaker Jean-Claude Rousseau.
17 October 2008
«301» is the number of a hotel room, in which Rousseau is waiting for something - or someone. The camera insistently studies a picture on the wall, focuses from the waiting person's view on a balcony across the way, or comes to rest on folded-over bed sheets.
29 July 2014
Changing and renewed figures before the immutable monument.
01 January 2026
Film by Jean-Claude Rousseau
22 September 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 contribution – on a restaurant terrace.
01 January 2006
Can you tell if yours is a colour or black and white dream ? If yours is a silent or sound dream ? If ther’s a voice off or actual sound ?
