May 17th 2025

Jean-Claude Rousseau: La Vallée Close (1995)

@ Doc Films at the University of Chicago

1212 E 59th St, Chicago, IL 60637

Opening Saturday, May 17th, at 3PM

Jean-Claude Rousseau · 144m · 16mm

Shot in the Vaucluse region of Southern France, the film originates from the natural fountain at the end of the river Sorgue, which has long mystifed locals and tourists, including Jean-Claude Rousseau. The filmmaker visited in 1984 and returned over the next decade with his Super 8 camera, composing out of the region a film that he describes as both an emergence and nexus of various elements, structured into twelve chapters like Petrarch’s double sestina.

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