Jean Rouch
Biography
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.
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Movies (50)
L’Enigma di Jean Rouch a Torino - Cronaca di un film raté
2017
My Conversations on Film
as Himself
2013
Freddy Buache, le cinéma
as Self (archive footage)
2012
Mad Mimes
Property Builder (Art)
2012
Maya Deren, Take Zero
as Himself
2012
Jean Epstein, Young Oceans of Cinema
as Self (archive footage)
2011
Sodankylä Forever
as Self
2010
The Dreamed Films
as Self
2010
Portrait de Jean Rouch
as Self
2004
Jean Rouch, des mensonges plus vrais que la réalité
as Lui-même
2004
Encountering Jean Rouch
2003
Mon père c'est un lion - Jean Rouch pour mémoire
as Self
2002
Le Rêve plus fort que la mort
Director (Directing)
2002
Nouvelle Vague : El cine sin dogmas
as Self
2000
Cinéma, de notre temps: Mosso, mosso (Jean Rouch comme si...)
as Himself
1999
Ciguri - Tarahumaras 99 - Le dernier chaman
as narrador
1999
Pierre Fatumbi Verger: Messenger Between Two Worlds
as Self
1998
Ciguri – Tarahumaras 98 - La Danse Du Peyotl
as Narrator
1998
I'm Tired of Standing, I Lie Down
Director (Directing)
1997
A Friendly Handshake
1997
Announcement
Director (Directing)
1997
Germaine et ses copains
Director (Directing)
1996
Son of Gascogne
as Self
1995
Rouch in Reverse
as himself
1995
Germaine chez elle
as himself
1994
Madame l'eau
Director (Directing)
1993
Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave
as Self
1992
An Egg with No Shell
1992
Letter to Jean Rouch
as Self
1992
Damouré Speaks About AIDS
Director (Directing)
1992
Jean Rouch: First Film 1947-1991
as Himself
1991
Brise-glace
Director (Directing)
1990
Liberté, égalité, fraternité, et puis après...
Director (Directing)
1990
Boulevards d'Afrique
Director (Directing)
1989
Brise-glace : Bateau givre
Editor (Editing)
1987
Cousin, cousine
Director (Directing)
1987
Couleur du temps. Berlin, Août 1945
Director (Directing)
1987
Enigma
Director (Directing)
1986
The Ordinary Madness of a Daughter of Ham
Director (Directing)
1986
Dionysos
Director (Directing)
1984
Ciné-Portrait of Raymond Depardon
as himself
1983
Sigui Synthesis: The Invention of Speech and Death
Director (Directing)
1981
Ciné-mafia
1980
Funeral at Bongo: The Death of Old Anai
Director (Directing)
1979
Cinématon
as N°1256
1978
Margaret Mead: A Portrait By a Friend
Director (Directing)
1978
Makwayela
Director (Directing)
1977
Samba the Great
as Narrator
1977
Ispahan: A Persian Letter (The Chah Mosque at Ispahan)
as Lui-même
1977
Hommage à Marcel Mauss. Germaine Dieterlen
Director (Directing)
1977