Country: France
Year: 2004
Duration: 5'
Wednesday, 3:57 p.m. Good evening. I can't make it by 5:15 but maybe… maybe later… but I'll confirm this soon and I'll call back… there… but it's not sure… after all, I… but I'll call back.
"He presented himself thus, without my knowing it. Without worrying about staging or composition. There, one morning, in an unrequested pose. The objects in place, as though they were glad to be there. A sight to be seen. I sat there in front of them, contemplating the motive and taking advantage of the situation. It would have lasted the form of one gaze because what could be seen was only the form of my gaze. I waited without saying anything and without complaining. I broke the silence by putting the camera on the tripod to verify the sight. The lens confirmed what I had expected. Everything seemed to stay in place in a lasting way. I started shooting and the resulting shot changed the story." (J-C. Rousseau)
Biography
film director
Jean-Claude Rousseau
Jean-Claude
Rousseau (Paris,
France, 1946) in New York works in avant-garde cinema and then in 1983
shot the
medium-length Jeune
femme à sa fenêtre lisant une letter (1983).
Two
short
films follow Venise
n’existe pas (1984) and Keep in
Touch (1987). His first full-length film, Les
Antiquités de Rome, was
made in 1989. He then directed
FILMOGRAFIA
Jeune
femme à sa fenêtre lisant une lettre (mm,
1983), Venise n’existe pas (doc., cm,
1984), Keep in Touch (cm,
1987), Les Antiquités de Rome (doc.,
1989),