Jean Rouch
Directing
Born: 1917-05-31 in Paris, France
Biography
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
Cinéma, de notre temps: Mosso, mosso (Jean Rouch comme si...)
Himself
Ciné-mafia
Ciné-Portrait of Raymond Depardon
himself
Outlaw
Self
The Mad Masters
Narrator
My Conversations on Film
Himself
Jean Rouch: First Film 1947-1991
Himself
The Doll
Officer (uncredited)
Chronicle of a Summer
Self
Cinématon
N°1256
The Lovely Month of May
Self (uncredited)
Germaine chez elle
himself
The Dreamed Films
Self
Encountering Jean Rouch
Son of Gascogne
Self
Samba the Great
Narrator
Ciguri – Tarahumaras 98 - La Danse Du Peyotl
Narrator
Freddy Buache, le cinéma
Self (archive footage)
A Friendly Handshake
Pierre Fatumbi Verger: Messenger Between Two Worlds
Self
La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même
Self
Letter to Jean Rouch
Self
World Without a Game
Self
Jean Rouch, des mensonges plus vrais que la réalité
Lui-même
L’Enigma di Jean Rouch a Torino - Cronaca di un film raté
Nouvelle Vague : El cine sin dogmas
Self
Ciguri - Tarahumaras 99 - Le dernier chaman
narrador
Ispahan: A Persian Letter (The Chah Mosque at Ispahan)
Lui-même
Jean Epstein, Young Oceans of Cinema
Self (archive footage)
An Egg with No Shell
Rouch's Gang
Self
Work(ing Together) in Process
Self, the filmmaker before the filmmakers (in 240p)
Portrait de Jean Rouch
Self
