Directing
Jean Rouch
1917-05-31 · Paris, 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.
Known for
Chronicle of a Summer
The Mad Masters
The Year 01
The Lovely Month of May
I, a Negro
Six in Paris
The Human Pyramid
Little by Little
The Lion Hunters
Jaguar
Cock-A-Doodle-Doo! Mr Chicken
Drums from the Past
The Fifteen-Year-Old Widows
Son of Gascogne
Cinématon
Sigui 1971: The Dune of Idyeli
Movie credits · 129
Outlaw
L’Enigma di Jean Rouch a Torino - Cronaca di un film raté
My Conversations on Film
Freddy Buache, le cinéma
Mad Mimes
Maya Deren, Take Zero
Jean Epstein, Young Oceans of Cinema
The Dreamed Films
Portrait de Jean Rouch
Jean Rouch, des mensonges plus vrais que la réalité
Encountering Jean Rouch
Mon père c'est un lion - Jean Rouch pour mémoire
Le Rêve plus fort que la mort
Nouvelle Vague : El cine sin dogmas
Cinéma, de notre temps: Mosso, mosso (Jean Rouch comme si...)
Ciguri - Tarahumaras 99 - Le dernier chaman
Pierre Fatumbi Verger: Messenger Between Two Worlds
Ciguri – Tarahumaras 98 - La Danse Du Peyotl
I'm Tired of Standing, I Lie Down
A Friendly Handshake
Announcement
Germaine et ses copains
Son of Gascogne
Rouch in Reverse
Germaine chez elle
Madame l'eau
Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave
An Egg with No Shell
Letter to Jean Rouch
Damouré Speaks About AIDS
Jean Rouch: First Film 1947-1991
Brise-glace
Liberté, égalité, fraternité, et puis après...
Boulevards d'Afrique
Brise-glace : Bateau givre
Cousin, cousine
Couleur du temps. Berlin, Août 1945
Enigma
The Ordinary Madness of a Daughter of Ham
Ciné-Portrait de Bill Witney
TV credits · 1
Movie & TV metadata from TMDB. This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.