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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.
Filmography
Outlaw
Film · 2025
L’Enigma di Jean Rouch a Torino - Cronaca di un film raté
Film · 2017
My Conversations on Film
Film · 2013
Maya Deren, Take Zero
Film · 2012
Freddy Buache, le cinéma
Film · 2012
Jean Epstein, Young Oceans of Cinema
Film · 2011
The Dreamed Films
Film · 2010
Jean Rouch, des mensonges plus vrais que la réalité
Film · 2004
Portrait de Jean Rouch
Film · 2004
Encountering Jean Rouch
Film · 2003
Mon père c'est un lion - Jean Rouch pour mémoire
Film · 2002
Nouvelle Vague : El cine sin dogmas
Film · 2000
Cinéma, de notre temps: Mosso, mosso (Jean Rouch comme si...)
Film · 1999
Ciguri - Tarahumaras 99 - Le dernier chaman
Film · 1999
Ciguri – Tarahumaras 98 - La Danse Du Peyotl
Film · 1998
Pierre Fatumbi Verger: Messenger Between Two Worlds
Film · 1998
A Friendly Handshake
Film · 1997
Son of Gascogne
Film · 1995
Rouch in Reverse
Film · 1995
Germaine chez elle
Film · 1994
Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave
Film · 1992
An Egg with No Shell
Film · 1992
Letter to Jean Rouch
Film · 1992
Jean Rouch: First Film 1947-1991
Film · 1991
Ciné-Portrait of Raymond Depardon
Film · 1983
Ciné-mafia
Film · 1980
Cinématon
Film · 1978
Samba the Great
Film · 1977
Ispahan: A Persian Letter (The Chah Mosque at Ispahan)
Film · 1977
Samedi soir
Series · 1971
Civilisation: L'homme et les images
Film · 1967
World Without a Game
Film · 1966
La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même
Film · 1964
The Lovely Month of May
Film · 1963
The Doll
Film · 1962
Chronicle of a Summer
Film · 1961
The Sons of the Water
Film · 1959
The Mad Masters
Film · 1955
Rouch's Gang
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Work(ing Together) in Process
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