Jean-Claude Rousseau Filmes

“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...

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

As the orchestra choir settles into the church choir, the trombonist blows into his instrument as a warm-up. Mozart's name appears at the top of the...

“My eyes are imprisoned/ Weeping with great longing”. Soèdade (saudade) — “longing” or “yearning”...

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

Experimental short film by Jean-Claude Rousseau

A man is waiting in a hotel.

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,...

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

A structuralist work composed of static, long-duration shots of Roman ruins and architectural details, all filmed on Super 8. The film operates...

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...

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

Between rain and clearer spells, in the footsteps of Ozu in today’s Japan, people met, wordless encounters… Also some seismic events, a...

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

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

"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

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...