Jean Rouch

Known for DirectingBorn 1917-05-31Died 2004-02-18Paris, France

Jean Rouch (French: [ʁuʃ]; 31 May 1917, Paris – 18 February 2004, Niger) was a French filmmaker and anthropologist. He is considered to be one of the founders of cinéma-vérité in France, which shared the aesthetics of the direct cinema. Rouch's practice as a filmmaker for over sixty years in Africa, was characterized by the idea of shared anthropology. Influenced by his discovery of surrealism in his early twenties, many of his films blur the line between fiction and documentary, creating a new style of ethnofiction. He was also hailed by the French New Wave as one of theirs. His seminal film Me a Black (Moi, un noir) pioneered the technique of jump cut popularized by Jean-Luc Godard. Godard said of Rouch in the Cahiers du Cinéma (Notebooks on Cinema) n°94 April 1959, "In charge of research for the Musée de l'Homme (French, "Museum of Man") Is there a better definition for a filmmaker?" Along his career, Rouch was no stranger to controversy.Read more

Movies & web series

Mad Mimes

Mon père c'est un lion - Jean Rouch pour mémoire

Announcement

The Ordinary Madness of a Daughter of Ham

Sigui 1972: The Loincloths of Yamé

Architects of Ayorou

Ayorou Singing Stones

Dogon Drums, Elements of a Study in Rhythm

Initiation into the Dance of the Possessed

Pierre Fatumbi Verger: Messenger Between Two Worlds

I'm Tired of Standing, I Lie Down

Liberté, égalité, fraternité, et puis après...

Ciné-Portrait of Raymond Depardon

Margaret Mead: A Portrait By a Friend

Ispahan: A Persian Letter (The Chah Mosque at Ispahan)

Pam Kuso Kar (Breaking Pam's Vases)

Sigui 1969: The Cave of Bongo

Sigui 1968: The Dancers of Tyogou

Le palmier à l'huile

Urbanisme africain

The Sons of the Water

La royale goumbé

Baby Ghana

Horendi

The Rainmakers

Nouvelle Vague : El cine sin dogmas

Enigma

Makwayela

The Burial of the Hogon

Mya - la mère

La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même

The Lovely Month of May

The Punishment

Hombroï

The Dreamed Films

Couleur du temps. Berlin, Août 1945

Madame l'eau

Sigui 1971: The Dune of Idyeli

Un lion nommé l'Américain

Badye, the Storyteller

I, a Negro

VW-Voyou

Rouch in Reverse

Boulevards d'Afrique

Little by Little

Chronicle of a Summer

Funeral at Bongo: The Death of Old Anai

Sigui 1973: The Canopy of Circumcision