Jean-Claude Rousseau Movies

Experimental short film by Jean-Claude Rousseau

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

Around Lake Como, a voyage interrupted by a series of brief, successive stops, as fleeting as musical phrases. Someone enters and leaves a telephone...

The continuing demand for high standards is what sets Rousseau's work apart. What makes this film distinctive is the way Rousseau explicitly returns...

A short film by experimental filmmaker Jean-Claude Rousseau.

At first glance, Jean-Claude Rousseau’s films seem like quickly outlined sketches. They are snapshots of various situations and locations, as...

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

Experimental short film by Jean-Claude Rousseau

Thirty-five years after "Keep in Touch", Jean-Claude Rousseau’s filmmaking returns to the city of Carl Andre and Hollis Frampton. It’s...

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

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.

‘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...

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

"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...

"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. Cavafy

«301» is the number of a hotel room, in which Rousseau is waiting for something - or someone. The camera insistently studies a picture on...

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

After Faibles Amusements and Contretemps, this is the third film in a triptych mischievously entitled Three Time Nothing, probably a discreet homage...