Jean-Claude Rousseau Movies
- 2006

Europa 2005 – 27 octobre
Europa 2005 – 27 octobre42006HD
Inspired by Rossellini's Europa '51 Straub-Huillet made a film consisting of two pans of a street corner in Paris.
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- 2012

Saudade
Saudade7.22012HD
“My eyes are imprisoned/ Weeping with great longing”. Soèdade (saudade) — “longing” or “yearning”...
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- 2022

Welcome
Welcome9.22022HD
Thirty-five years after "Keep in Touch", Jean-Claude Rousseau’s filmmaking returns to the city of Carl Andre and Hollis Frampton. It’s...
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- 2022

The Tomb of Kafka
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“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...
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- 2019

In Memoriam
In Memoriam102019HD
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...
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- 2017

So Far, So Close
So Far, So Close02017HD
A journey to Kyoto. From the temple’s highest terrace visitors have a view of the city in the distance, under the changing sky.
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- 2018

Une Vie Risquée
Une Vie Risquée02018HD
Short film commissioned by the Cinemathèque Suisse to celebrate Jean-Marie Straub’s 85th birthday.
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- 2024

Flamenco
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‘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...
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- 2016

Late Season
Late Season5.82016HD
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.
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- 2014

Under a Changing Sky
Under a Changing Sky62014HD
Sous un ciel changeant. Jean-Claude Rousseau uses his signature black frames to create Durasian elisions between painterly, Corot-conjuring tableaux.
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- 2007

De son Appartement
De son Appartement5.52007HD
The continuing demand for high standards is what sets Rouseau's work apart. What makes this film distinctive is the way Rousseau explicitly returns...
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- 2010

Festival
Festival32010HD
Jean-Claude Rousseau is a filmmaker who believes in the natural power of images. The rigid compositions create something like a pure state, which...
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- 2010

A Day
A Day42010HD
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- 1995

The Enclosed Valley
The Enclosed Valley7.21995HD
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,...
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- 2007

Pas cette nuit
Pas cette nuit62007HD
In a darkened room a dark figure holding numerous flickering candles walks towards the camera. The single frame, however, keeps the secret of the...
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- 2013

Éclaircie
Éclaircie02013HD
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- 2009

Série noire
Série noire72009HD
The title is playing with us, claiming that the film is a detective story. Witch in a way it is not untrue. The camera is peeping tom and it does not...
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- 2014

Fantastique
Fantastique02014HD
Experimental short film by Jean-Claude Rousseau
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- 2004

Faibles amusements
Faibles amusements02004HD
A short film by Jean-Claude Rousseau.
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- 2012

Eaux profondes
Eaux profondes62012HD
The loneliness of the white fish in the goldfishes’ aquarium.
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