23° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL

Comme une ombre légére

Like a slight shadow

Country: France

Year: 2005

Duration: 37'

"You're there... I thought you passed on the other side." The third part of a triptych entitled Trois fois rien, the first two parts are Faibles amusements and Contretemps (which were presented at the 2004 Torino Film Festival).

"The motive is the unity one sees, I mean the "subject" in the sense of a person. In this case, the person makes the motive. It is his presence in the three films that makes the unity and, in the end, a feature film. His voyage through the image is Trois fois rien (nothing three times) The beginning and the end. Two panels for this crossing. Faibles amusements and Comme une ombre légère revolve around a hinge, around a five-minute insert called Contretemps. These two panels, which are almost exactly the same length, respond to each other, but they don't have the same tone - and in this I also mean the tone of the voice. In Comme une ombre légère words are rare. They are more frequent and almost voluble in Faibles amusements. Something happens between the two, or something has happened. There are elements, sometimes like an echo, that can be perceives as a story." (J-C. Rousseau)

FILM DIRECTOR

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 La Valée close (1995), awarded in Belfort. In 2002 he made the digital Lettre à Roberto, a short film selected for the International Festival of Documentaries in Marseille and Locarno. In 2003, a retrospective was dedicated to Rousseau at the International Film Festival of Jeon Ju, in Korea, where he made his short film, Juste Avant l’Orage.

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), La Vallée close (doc., 1995), Lettre à Roberto (cm, doc., 2002), Juste Avant l’orage (cm, doc., 2003), Faibles amusements (mm, 2004), Contretemps (cm, 2004), Comme une ombre légère (cm, 2005), Une Vue sur l’autre rive (cm, 2005), Non rendu (cm, 2005).