Keep In Touch
Jean-Claude Rousseau
High clouds arriving over the ocean regions in the evening. The lows will be a bit warmer than usual, but light snow will continue to fall in the northeast. The highs will remain steady, little change from the past few days. Sunday, clouds and light rain will spread slowly across the country. The high in New York 44, the low 29, and snowing.
Jean-Claude Rousseau was born in 1946 and became interested in avant-garde cinema at a young age, and in particular two filmmakers: Yasujiro Ozu and Robert Bresson—he wrote several articles about them. In 1983, he made his first film Jeune femme lisant à sa fenêtre (a medium-length Super 8), he then made two shorts, Venise n'existe pas (1984) and Keep in Touch (1987), and finally his first feature film Les Antiquitiés de Rome, shot in Super 8— and where one would normally use short shots, he used shots that lingered, where a dolly shot would have been expected, he put a still shot. He began work on a second feature film La Vallée close that was finally transferred to 16mm in 1998. It won the Documentary Grand Prix at the Belfort Film Festival the following year. His films have been screened in numerous festivals and prestigious venues (La Mostra, Centre Georges Pompidou, New York University, Marseille Festivals, Locarno, Jeon Ju...). Mr. Rousseau made his first digital-video film Lettre à Roberto in 2002 followed by Juste avant l'orage (2003) filmed in Jeon-Ju, South Korea. In 2005, he finished Comme une ombre légère, which along with Faibles amusements (2004) and Contretemps (2004) form a triptych entitled Trois fois rien. Mr. Rousseau made two new shorts in 2005: Non rendu, presented in the Coté Court Festival retrospective of his films in Pantin, and Une vue sur l'autre rive, not yet released in France.