Jean-Claude Rousseau

Directing · Acting · Camera · Editing

Born January 1, 1946, Paris

Jean-Claude Rousseau is one of the most unconventional lone fighters in French cinema. His predominantly short films deal with no less than cinema per se: space, time and movement. As abstract as each of these concepts might seem taken alone, Rousseau assigns their ultimate designation as an integral whole: A person (or no-one, for that matter) moves (or does not move) within a room (or looks into another room) for a certain amount of time.

Filmography

• 2026Last Stop for the Circular Ticket — Director, Director of Photography, Editor, Producer
• 2025Requiem — Director, Cinematography, Editor, Sound, Production Director
• 2024Flamenco — Director
• 2024Où sont tous mes amants? — Director
• 2023Souvenir d'Athènes — Director
• 2022The Tomb of Kafka — Himself, Director, Writer
• 2022Welcome — Director
• 2021A Floating World — Director
• 2019In Memoriam — Director of Photography, Producer, Sound, Editor
• 2018Une Vie Risquée — Himself, Director
• 2017Delft dans le lointain — Director
• 2017La Villa — Director
• 2017So Far, So Close — Director
• 2016Chansons d'amour — Director
• 2016Late Season — Director
• 2015Passion — Director, Writer
• 2014Fantastique — Director
• 2014Partage des Eaux — Director
• 2014Remembering Wavelengths — Director
• 2014Terrasse avec vue — Director
• 2014Under a Changing Sky — Director
• 2013L'air d’être là — Director
• 2013Éclaircie — Director
• 2012Eaux profondes — Director
• 2012Saudade — Director
• 2011Attic — Director
• 2011Last Breath — Director
• 2011Senza mostra — Director
• 2011Un autre jour — Director
• 2011White Night — Director
• 2010A Day — Director
• 2010Festival — Self, Director
• 2010Mirage — Director
• 2010Veduta — Director
• 2009Série noire — Director
• 2008301 — Director
• 2008L'Appel de la forêt — Director
• 2007De son Appartement — Himself, Director, Writer, Cinematography, Editor, Sound
• 2007False Start — Director
• 2007Pas cette nuit — Director
• 2007Twice Around the World — Himself, Director, Editor, Director of Photography, Sound Designer, Producer
• 2006Europa 2005 – 27 octobre — Editor, Cinematography
• 2006Starless Night — Director
• 2006Three Times Nothing — Self, Director
• 2005Comme une ombre légère — Director
• 2005Non rendu — Director
• 2005Une vue sur l'autre rive — Director
• 2004Contretemps — Director
• 2004Faibles amusements — Director
• 2004Just Before the Storm — Director
• 2002Lettre à Roberto — Himself, Director, Writer, Editor, Cinematography, Sound, Producer
• 1995The Enclosed Valley — Director, Producer, Director of Photography
• 1989The Antiquities of Rome — Director
• 1987Keep in Touch — Director
• 1984Venise n'existe pas — Director
• 1983Girl Reading a Letter by an Open Window — Himself, Director, Editor, Cinematography, Producer, Sound