Martine Rousset

Martine Rousset

Born: May 29, 1951
in Montpellier, France
Born on May 29, 1951 in Montpellier, Martine Rousset resided in Sète, France until 1975. She studied Philosophy of Cinema at the Université Paul Valery of Montpellier. As a director, she focuses on light and script. She has worked in cinema since 1977, and has been working as an expert beside Suzanne Pagé since 1978 in the audiovisual department of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris.

She has attended various festivals such as Festival of Berlin (1980), MNAM, Paris (1989), Berkeley (1990), MoMA, New York (1995), Feminale, Cologne (1992/1994/1996), Osnabrück (1996), IMPACT (1996), Oberhausen (1998), Scratch (1998/2001/2003), Riga (2002), Pesaro (2003), Los Angeles Film Forum (2004), Festival des cinémas differents, Paris (2005), La Enana Marrón, Madrid (2005), Rencontre des labos de Bruxelles (2005), 10 ans de l'Abominable (2006), Taiwan Women in the Arts (2007), Les Inattendus, Lyon (2007), Belgrade Alternative Film Festival (2008), Les Écrans Documentaires (2008).

Movies for Martine Rousset...

Cinexpérimentaux #1: Martine Rousset
Title: Cinexpérimentaux #1: Martine Rousset
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
Portrait of experimental filmmaker Martine Rousset.
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Portraiture
Title: Portraiture
Released: January 1, 1993
Type: Movie
Initial situation: models were invited to participate in their portrait by the contribution of personal objects and a great freedom of expression before the camera. This initial situation was conceived by Catherine Rebois. Graffon: I propose to film in a fragmented way these sessions of pose. Participants agree to be filmed at the same time they are photographed. Deliberately sharpened shift between an initial situation in its own duration and its filmic recording. The sequence of photographic shooting sessions is shattered.
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Tandis que j’agonise
Title: Tandis que j’agonise
Released: June 1, 1980
Type: Movie
Free adaptation of Faulkner's novel aroused by the Patrick Henry and Ranucci cases.
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Cinématon III
Title: Cinématon III
Character: N°22
Released: December 22, 1978
Type: Movie
Reel 3 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.
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Cinématon
Title: Cinématon
Character: N°22
Released: December 20, 1978
Type: Movie
Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 silent vignettes (cinématons), each 3 minutes and 25 seconds long, of various celebrities, artists, journalists and friends of the director, each doing whatever they want for the allotted time. Subjects of the film include directors Barbet Schroeder, Nagisa Oshima, Volker Schlöndorff, Ken Loach, Benjamin Cuq, Youssef Chahine, Wim Wenders, Joseph Losey, Jean-Luc Godard, Samuel Fuller and Terry Gilliam, chess grandmaster Joël Lautier, and actors Roberto Benigni, Stéphane Audran, Julie Delpy and Lesley Chatterley. Gilliam is featured eating a 100-franc note, while Fuller smokes a cigar. Courant's favourite subject was a 7-month-old baby. The film was screened in its then-entirety in Avignon in November 2009 and was screened in Redondo Beach, CA on April 9, 2010.
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Cinématon n°22 : Martine Rousset
Title: Cinématon n°22 : Martine Rousset
Released: July 3, 1978
Type: Movie
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Sha-Dada
Title: Sha-Dada
Character: (voice)
Released: March 3, 1978
Type: Movie
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M M M M M...
Title: M M M M M...
Released: March 19, 1977
Type: Movie
One year before starting his famous series "Cinematons", Gerard Courant had made an ancestor to this series: the portrait of Martine Rousset, filmed with a Bolex 16 mm mechanical.