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 |