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.
Cast
Samba the Great
Narrator
The Doll
Officer (uncredited)
Son of Gascogne
Self
Ispahan: A Persian Letter (The Chah Mosque at Ispahan)
Lui-même
Encountering Jean Rouch
Unknown
Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave
Self
A Friendly Handshake
Unknown
The Dreamed Films
Self
Les Fils de l'eau
Unknown
World Without a Game
Himself
La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même
Self
Rouch's Gang
Self
Mon père c'est un lion - Jean Rouch pour mémoire
Self
Jean Epstein, Young Oceans of Cinema
Self (archive footage)
Rouch in Reverse
himself
Nouvelle Vague : El cine sin dogmas
Self
Maya Deren, Take Zero
Himself
Ciguri – Tarahumaras 98 - La Danse Du Peyotl
Narrator
The Mad Masters
Narrator
Ciné-mafia
Unknown
Germaine chez elle
himself
Jean Rouch: First Film 1947-1991
Himself
Chronicle of a Summer
Self
Cinéma, de notre temps: Mosso, mosso (Jean Rouch comme si...)
Himself
My Conversations on Film
Himself
Ciné-Portrait of Raymond Depardon
himself
Cinématon
N°1256
Civilisation: L'homme et les images
Self
Pierre Fatumbi Verger: Messenger Between Two Worlds
Self
The Lovely Month of May
Self (uncredited)
An Egg with No Shell
Unknown
Jean Rouch, des mensonges plus vrais que la réalité
Lui-même
Sodankylä Forever
Self
Letter to Jean Rouch
Self
Ciguri - Tarahumaras 99 - Le dernier chaman
narrador
Work(ing Together) in Process
Self, the filmmaker before the filmmakers (in 240p)
Portrait de Jean Rouch
Self
Freddy Buache, le cinéma
Self (archive footage)
L’Enigma di Jean Rouch a Torino - Cronaca di un film raté
Unknown
Crew
Les Fils de l'eau
Director
Cock-A-Doodle-Doo! Mr Chicken
Director, Writer, Director of Photography
I, a Negro
Director, Writer, Producer
Six in Paris
Director, Writer
The Mad Masters
Director, Cinematography
Chronicle of a Summer
Director
The Lion Hunters
Director, Director of Photography
I'm Tired of Standing, I Lie Down
Director, Cinematography
Cousin, cousine
Director
Jaguar
Director, Director of Photography
Little by Little
Director, Writer, Director of Photography
Horendi
Director
The Human Pyramid
Director, Cinematography, Writer
Dionysos
Director
The Year 01
Co-Director
A Friendly Handshake
Director
Liberté, égalité, fraternité, et puis après...
Director
In the Land of the Black Magi
Director
The Punishment
Director, Screenplay
Babatou, Three Pieces of Advice
Director, Director of Photography
The Magicians of Wanzerbé
Director
The Ordinary Madness of a Daughter of Ham
Director
Sigui 1967: L'enclume de Yougo
Director
Sigui 1968: The Dancers of Tyogou
Director
Sigui 1970: The Clamours of Amani
Director
Sigui 1971: The Dune of Idyeli
Director
Sigui 1972: The Loincloths of Yamé
Director
Sigui 1973: The Canopy of Circumcision
Director
Ayorou Singing Stones
Director
Boukoki
Director
The Burial of the Hogon
Director
Drums from the Past
Director, Writer, Cinematography
Funeral Rites for Women in Bongo
Director
Damouré Speaks About AIDS
Director
Announcement
Director
Pam Kuso Kar (Breaking Pam's Vases)
Director
Mammy Water
Director, Writer, Producer, Cinematography
Architects of Ayorou
Director
Cemeteries in the Cliff
Director
Ispahan: A Persian Letter (The Chah Mosque at Ispahan)
Director
Battle on the Great River
Director
Madame l'eau
Director
Un lion nommé l'Américain
Director
Ciné-mafia
Director, Cinematography
Dogon Drums, Elements of a Study in Rhythm
Director
The Fifteen-Year-Old Widows
Director
Brise-glace
Director, Writer, Editor, Director of Photography
Brise-glace : Bateau givre
Director, Director of Photography, Editor, Writer
Sigui Synthesis: The Invention of Speech and Death
Director
Makwayela
Director
Circumcision
Director, Producer, Cinematography
Enigma
Director
Niger Festivals: December 1961 - Niger Independence Days
Director
Ciné-Portrait of Raymond Depardon
Director, Director of Photography
The Rainmakers
Director
Baby Ghana
Director
Moro Naba
Director
Initiation into the Dance of the Possessed
Director
Une sortie de novices de Sakpata
Director
Mad Mimes
Property Builder
The Goumbé of the Young Revelers
Writer, Director of Photography, Director
Le Rêve plus fort que la mort
Director, Writer
The Dama of Ambara: To Enchant Death
Director, Writer
Daouda Sorko
Director
Gare du Nord
Director, Screenplay
Sigui 1969: The Cave of Bongo
Director
Funeral at Bongo: The Death of Old Anai
Director
Hampi
Director
Yenendi de Ganghel (Rain Dance at Ganghel)
Director
Germaine chez elle
Director, Writer
Hommage à Marcel Mauss. Germaine Dieterlen
Director
Germaine et ses copains
Director
Badye, the Storyteller
Director
Zomo et ses frères
Director
L'Afrique et la recherche scientifique
Director
Monsieur Albert, prophète
Director
That Tender Age
Director
Hombroï
Director
Les gens du mil
Director
La royale goumbé
Director
Le palmier à l'huile
Director
Les cocotiers
Director
Abidjan, port de pêche
Director
Urbanisme africain
Director
Le mil
Director
Les pêcheurs du Niger
Director
Rose et Landry
Director
Boulevards d'Afrique
Director
VW-Voyou
Director
Giraffe Football or “The Alternative”
Director
Margaret Mead: A Portrait By a Friend
Director
Mya - la mère
Director
Funérailles au Ghana
Director
Couleur du temps. Berlin, Août 1945
Director