Jean Rouch
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.
Fotos
Películas (129)
Outlaw
2025 · Self
L’Enigma di Jean Rouch a Torino - Cronaca di un film raté
2017
My Conversations on Film
2013 · Himself
Freddy Buache, le cinéma
2012 · Self (archive footage)
Mad Mimes
2012 · Property Builder
Maya Deren, Take Zero
2012 · Himself
Jean Epstein, Young Oceans of Cinema
2011 · Self (archive footage)
The Dreamed Films
2010 · Self
Portrait de Jean Rouch
2004 · Self
Jean Rouch, des mensonges plus vrais que la réalité
2004 · Lui-même
Encountering Jean Rouch
2003
Mon père c'est un lion - Jean Rouch pour mémoire
2002 · Self
Le Rêve plus fort que la mort
2002 · Director, Writer
Nouvelle Vague : El cine sin dogmas
2000 · Self
Cinéma, de notre temps: Mosso, mosso (Jean Rouch comme si...)
1999 · Himself
Ciguri - Tarahumaras 99 - Le dernier chaman
1999 · narrador
Pierre Fatumbi Verger: Messenger Between Two Worlds
1998 · Self
Ciguri – Tarahumaras 98 - La Danse Du Peyotl
1998 · Narrator
I'm Tired of Standing, I Lie Down
1997 · Director, Cinematography
A Friendly Handshake
1997 · Director
Announcement
1997 · Director
Germaine et ses copains
1996 · Director
Son of Gascogne
1995 · Self
Rouch in Reverse
1995 · himself
Germaine chez elle
1994 · himself, Director, Writer
Madame l'eau
1993 · Director
Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave
1992 · Self
An Egg with No Shell
1992
Letter to Jean Rouch
1992 · Self
Damouré Speaks About AIDS
1992 · Director
Jean Rouch: First Film 1947-1991
1991 · Himself
Brise-glace
1990 · Director, Editor, Writer, Director of Photography
Liberté, égalité, fraternité, et puis après...
1990 · Director
Boulevards d'Afrique
1989 · Director
Brise-glace : Bateau givre
1987 · Editor, Writer, Director of Photography, Director
Cousin, cousine
1987 · Director
Couleur du temps. Berlin, Août 1945
1987 · Director
Enigma
1986 · Director
The Ordinary Madness of a Daughter of Ham
1986 · Director
Ciné-Portrait de Bill Witney
1986 · Director
Dionysos
1984 · Director
Hampâté Bâ
1984 · Director
Ciné-Portrait of Raymond Depardon
1983 · himself, Director of Photography, Director
Sigui Synthesis: The Invention of Speech and Death
1981 · Director
Ciné-mafia
1980 · Director, Cinematography
Funeral at Bongo: The Death of Old Anai
1979 · Director
Cinématon
1978 · N°1256
Margaret Mead: A Portrait By a Friend
1978 · Director
Ciné-Portrait de Stanislas Adotevi
1978 · Director
Makwayela
1977 · Director
Samba the Great
1977 · Narrator
Ispahan: A Persian Letter (The Chah Mosque at Ispahan)
1977 · Lui-même, Director
Hommage à Marcel Mauss. Germaine Dieterlen
1977 · Director
Badye, the Storyteller
1977 · Director
Babatou, Three Pieces of Advice
1976 · Director, Director of Photography
Zomo et ses frères
1975 · Director
Cock-A-Doodle-Doo! Mr Chicken
1974 · Director, Writer, Director of Photography
Pam Kuso Kar (Breaking Pam's Vases)
1974 · Director
The Dama of Ambara: To Enchant Death
1974 · Director, Writer
Sigui 1973: The Canopy of Circumcision
1973 · Director
The Year 01
1973 · Co-Director
Boukoki
1973 · Director
The Burial of the Hogon
1973 · Director
Funeral Rites for Women in Bongo
1973 · Director
VW-Voyou
1973 · Director
Giraffe Football or “The Alternative”
1973 · Director
Hommage à Marcel Mauss : Taro Okamoto
1973 · Director
Sigui 1972: The Loincloths of Yamé
1972 · Director
Horendi
1972 · Director
Un lion nommé l'Américain
1972 · Director
Sigui 1971: The Dune of Idyeli
1971 · Director
Drums from the Past
1971 · Cinematography, Writer, Director
Sigui 1970: The Clamours of Amani
1970 · Director
Little by Little
1970 · Director, Writer, Director of Photography
Architects of Ayorou
1970 · Director
Mya - la mère
1970 · Director
Sigui 1969: The Cave of Bongo
1969 · Director
Sigui 1968: The Dancers of Tyogou
1968 · Director
Ayorou Singing Stones
1968 · Director
Yenendi de Ganghel (Rain Dance at Ganghel)
1968 · Director
Sigui 1967: L'enclume de Yougo
1967 · Director
Jaguar
1967 · Director, Director of Photography
Civilisation: L'homme et les images
1967 · Self
Daouda Sorko
1967 · Director
The Lion Hunters
1966 · Director, Director of Photography
World Without a Game
1966 · Self
Dogon Drums, Elements of a Study in Rhythm
1966 · Director
The Goumbé of the Young Revelers
1966 · Writer, Director of Photography, Director
Six in Paris
1965 · Director, Writer
Gare du Nord
1965 · Director, Screenplay
The Fifteen-Year-Old Widows
1964 · Director
That Tender Age
1964 · Director
La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même
1964 · Self
L'Afrique et la recherche scientifique
1964 · Director
The Lovely Month of May
1963 · Self (uncredited)
Monsieur Albert, prophète
1963 · Director
Le palmier à l'huile
1963 · Director
Les cocotiers
1963 · Director
Rose et Landry
1963 · Director
The Doll
1962 · Officer (uncredited)
Hampi
1962 · Director
The Punishment
1962 · Screenplay, Director
Niger Festivals: December 1961 - Niger Independence Days
1962 · Director
Abidjan, port de pêche
1962 · Director
Urbanisme africain
1962 · Director
Les pêcheurs du Niger
1962 · Director
Le mil
1962 · Director
Chronicle of a Summer
1961 · Self, Director
The Human Pyramid
1961 · Director, Writer, Director of Photography
Funérailles au Ghana
1960 · Director
The Sons of the Water
1959 · Director
I, a Negro
1959 · Director, Writer, Producer
Moro Naba
1958 · Director
Une sortie de novices de Sakpata
1958 · Director
La royale goumbé
1958 · Director
Baby Ghana
1957 · Director
The Mad Masters
1955 · Narrator, Director, Cinematography
Mammy Water
1953 · Director, Producer, Writer, Cinematography
The Rainmakers
1951 · Director
Cemeteries in the Cliff
1951 · Director
Les gens du mil
1951 · Director
Battle on the Great River
1950 · Director, Cinematography
Circumcision
1949 · Director, Producer, Cinematography
Initiation into the Dance of the Possessed
1948 · Director
The Magicians of Wanzerbé
1948 · Director
Hombroï
1948 · Director
In the Land of the Black Magi
1947 · Director
Rouch's Gang
· Self
Work(ing Together) in Process
· Self, the filmmaker before the filmmakers (in 240p)