Jean Rouch
Directing
Born 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.
Filmography
L’Enigma di Jean Rouch a Torino - Cronaca di un film raté
Aug 23, 2017
My Conversations on Film
Oct 13, 2013
Freddy Buache, le cinéma
Nov 29, 2012
Jean Epstein, Young Oceans of Cinema
Jan 1, 2011
Sodankylä Forever
Aug 5, 2010
The Dreamed Films
Mar 18, 2010
Portrait de Jean Rouch
May 4, 2004
Jean Rouch, des mensonges plus vrais que la réalité
Mar 5, 2004
Encountering Jean Rouch
Jan 1, 2003
Nouvelle Vague : El cine sin dogmas
Apr 2, 2000
Cinéma, de notre temps: Mosso, mosso (Jean Rouch comme si...)
Aug 11, 1999
Ciguri - Tarahumaras 99 - Le dernier chaman
Jan 1, 1999
Pierre Fatumbi Verger: Messenger Between Two Worlds
Dec 31, 1998
Ciguri – Tarahumaras 98 - La Danse Du Peyotl
Jan 1, 1998
A Friendly Handshake
Jan 1, 1997
Son of Gascogne
Feb 18, 1995
Germaine chez elle
Jan 1, 1994
An Egg with No Shell
Jan 1, 1992
Letter to Jean Rouch
Jan 1, 1992
Jean Rouch: First Film 1947-1991
Feb 26, 1991
Ciné-Portrait of Raymond Depardon
Jan 1, 1983
Cinématon
Dec 20, 1978
Samba the Great
Mar 26, 1977
Ispahan: A Persian Letter (The Chah Mosque at Ispahan)
Mar 1, 1977
World Without a Game
May 29, 1966
La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même
May 19, 1964
The Lovely Month of May
May 3, 1963
The Doll
Nov 7, 1962
Chronicle of a Summer
Oct 20, 1961
The Sons of the Water
Dec 10, 1959