Emilie Rousset
Biography
French theatre director film-make Émilie Rousset studied directing at the Théâtre National de Strasbourg. She uses documentary research to create theatrical, installative, and filmic forms in which actors embody the collected archives, creating fruitful superpositions between reality and fiction, original and copy. For “Shared Landscapes”, she met with an agroecology advocacy officer, a tractor farmer and a bio-acoustician, and recorded their words. Performers and a machine replay these original and several versions, inviting the audience to contemplate, upend, and examine the connections between science, technology, economy and landscape. Currently she is the artistic director of the French theatre company John Corporation.