Rousseau, ”keep in touch”

Jean-Claude Rousseau, "keep in touch" (1987)
A man sitting at a table begins to write maybe a letter to "keep in touch" with someone. He makes the table lamp flicker as if he gave a signal to the one who is absent. In this short film as well as in "La Vallee close" (1995), Rousseau tries to represent our lives as cyclic movements of atoms. Abstracted by geometrical framing, landscapes of New York are turned into a vacant space where atoms move led by an accident. The sound of a pinballmachine lapped over the image of a snow-covered deserted street indicates the movements of atoms which are, thrown out like balls of a pinball game, driven from one point to another. This is how an atom happens to meet another, just like the people skating in the darkness brush by and touch one another. The music and humming voice to this skating scene seems to imply Rousseau's appreciation for such meetings and his close attention to keep them in the memory.