
Jean Rouch
Biography
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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.
Acting (31 movies)

Samba the Great
1977

The Doll
1962

Son of Gascogne
1995

Ispahan: A Persian Letter (The Chah Mosque at Ispahan)
1977

Encountering Jean Rouch
2003

A Friendly Handshake
1997

The Dreamed Films
2010

Les Fils de l'eau
1959

World Without a Game
1966

La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même
1964

Jean Epstein, Young Oceans of Cinema
2011

Nouvelle Vague : El cine sin dogmas
2000

Ciguri – Tarahumaras 98 - La Danse Du Peyotl
1998

The Mad Masters
1955

Germaine chez elle
1994

Jean Rouch: First Film 1947-1991
1991

Chronicle of a Summer
1961

Cinéma, de notre temps: Mosso, mosso (Jean Rouch comme si...)
1999

My Conversations on Film
2013

Ciné-Portrait of Raymond Depardon
1983

Cinématon
1978

Pierre Fatumbi Verger: Messenger Between Two Worlds
1998

The Lovely Month of May
1963

An Egg with No Shell
1992

Jean Rouch, des mensonges plus vrais que la réalité
2004

Sodankylä Forever
2010

Letter to Jean Rouch
1992

Ciguri - Tarahumaras 99 - Le dernier chaman
1999

Portrait de Jean Rouch
2004

Freddy Buache, le cinéma
2012

L’Enigma di Jean Rouch a Torino - Cronaca di un film raté
2017
Directing (92 movies)

Les Fils de l'eau
1959

I, a Negro
1959

Cock-A-Doodle-Doo! Mr Chicken
1974

Six in Paris
1965

The Mad Masters
1955

Chronicle of a Summer
1961

The Lion Hunters
1966
I'm Tired of Standing, I Lie Down
1997

Cousin, cousine
1987

Little by Little
1970

Jaguar
1967

Horendi
1972

The Human Pyramid
1961
Dionysos
1984

A Friendly Handshake
1997
Liberté, égalité, fraternité, et puis après...
1990

In the Land of the Black Magi
1947

The Punishment
1962

Babatou, Three Pieces of Advice
1976

The Magicians of Wanzerbé
1948

The Ordinary Madness of a Daughter of Ham
1986

Sigui 1967: L'enclume de Yougo
1967

Sigui 1968: The Dancers of Tyogou
1968

Sigui 1970: The Clamours of Amani
1970

Sigui 1971: The Dune of Idyeli
1971

Ayorou Singing Stones
1968

Boukoki
1973
Sigui 1972: The Loincloths of Yamé
1972
Sigui 1973: The Canopy of Circumcision
1973

The Burial of the Hogon
1973

Drums from the Past
1971

Funeral Rites for Women in Bongo
1973

Damouré Speaks About AIDS
1992
Announcement
1997

Mammy Water
1953

Pam Kuso Kar (Breaking Pam's Vases)
1974

Architects of Ayorou
1970

Cemeteries in the Cliff
1951

Ispahan: A Persian Letter (The Chah Mosque at Ispahan)
1977

Battle on the Great River
1950
Madame l'eau
1993

Un lion nommé l'Américain
1972
Ciné-mafia
1980

Dogon Drums, Elements of a Study in Rhythm
1966

The Fifteen-Year-Old Widows
1964

Brise-glace
1990
Brise-glace : Bateau givre
1987
Sigui Synthesis: The Invention of Speech and Death
1981

Makwayela
1977
Circumcision
1949

Enigma
1986

Niger Festivals: December 1961 - Niger Independence Days
1962

Ciné-Portrait of Raymond Depardon
1983

The Rainmakers
1951

Moro Naba
1958

Baby Ghana
1957

Initiation into the Dance of the Possessed
1948
Une sortie de novices de Sakpata
1958
Le Rêve plus fort que la mort
2002

The Dama of Ambara: To Enchant Death
1974

Daouda Sorko
1967

Gare du Nord
1965

Sigui 1969: The Cave of Bongo
1969

Funeral at Bongo: The Death of Old Anai
1979

Hampi
1962

Yenendi de Ganghel (Rain Dance at Ganghel)
1968

Germaine chez elle
1994

Hommage à Marcel Mauss. Germaine Dieterlen
1977

Germaine et ses copains
1996

Badye, the Storyteller
1977

Zomo et ses frères
1975

L'Afrique et la recherche scientifique
1964

Monsieur Albert, prophète
1963

That Tender Age
1964
Hombroï
1948
Le palmier à l'huile
1963
Les cocotiers
1963
Abidjan, port de pêche
1962
Urbanisme africain
1962
Les gens du mil
1951
Les pêcheurs du Niger
1962
La royale goumbé
1958
Le mil
1962
Rose et Landry
1963

The Goumbé of the Young Revelers
1966
Boulevards d'Afrique
1989

VW-Voyou
1973

Giraffe Football or “The Alternative”
1973

Margaret Mead: A Portrait By a Friend
1978

Mya - la mère
1970

Funérailles au Ghana
1960

Couleur du temps. Berlin, Août 1945
1987
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Circumcision | 1949 | Producer |
| Mammy Water | 1953 | Producer |
| Mammy Water | 1953 | Writer |
| I, a Negro | 1959 | Writer |
| I, a Negro | 1959 | Producer |
| The Human Pyramid | 1961 | Writer |
| The Punishment | 1962 | Screenplay |
| Six in Paris | 1965 | Writer |
| Gare du Nord | 1965 | Screenplay |
| The Goumbé of the Young Revelers | 1966 | Writer |
| Little by Little | 1970 | Writer |
| Drums from the Past | 1971 | Writer |
| Cock-A-Doodle-Doo! Mr Chicken | 1974 | Writer |
| The Dama of Ambara: To Enchant Death | 1974 | Writer |
| Brise-glace : Bateau givre | 1987 | Writer |
| Brise-glace | 1990 | Writer |
| Germaine chez elle | 1994 | Writer |
| Le Rêve plus fort que la mort | 2002 | Writer |