Jean Rouch
Directing · Born May 31, 1917 · Died Feb 18, 2004 (86) · 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
Directed
A Friendly Handshake
1997
Germaine et ses copains
1996
Germaine chez elle
1994
Damouré Speaks About AIDS
1992
Brise-glace
19906.6
Cousin, cousine
1987
Couleur du temps. Berlin, Août 1945
19877.5
Enigma
19868.0
The Ordinary Madness of a Daughter of Ham
198610.0
Ciné-Portrait of Raymond Depardon
19839.0
Funeral at Bongo: The Death of Old Anai
19797.0
Margaret Mead: A Portrait By a Friend
19789.0
Makwayela
19778.0
Ispahan: A Persian Letter (The Chah Mosque at Ispahan)
19779.0
Hommage à Marcel Mauss. Germaine Dieterlen
1977
Badye, the Storyteller
19777.2
Babatou, Three Pieces of Advice
19766.3
Zomo et ses frères
1975
Cock-A-Doodle-Doo! Mr Chicken
19746.6
Pam Kuso Kar (Breaking Pam's Vases)
19749.0
The Dama of Ambara: To Enchant Death
1974
Boukoki
19737.0
The Burial of the Hogon
19738.0
Funeral Rites for Women in Bongo
1973
VW-Voyou
19737.2
Giraffe Football or “The Alternative”
1973
Horendi
19728.6
Un lion nommé l'Américain
19727.3
Sigui 1971: The Dune of Idyeli
19717.5
Drums from the Past
19716.3
Sigui 1970: The Clamours of Amani
19707.0
Little by Little
19707.1
Architects of Ayorou
197010.0
Mya - la mère
19708.0
Sigui 1969: The Cave of Bongo
19699.0
Sigui 1968: The Dancers of Tyogou
19689.0
Ayorou Singing Stones
196810.0
Yenendi de Ganghel (Rain Dance at Ganghel)
1968
Sigui 1967: L'enclume de Yougo
1967
Jaguar
19676.8
Daouda Sorko
1967
The Lion Hunters
19666.0
Dogon Drums, Elements of a Study in Rhythm
196610.0
The Goumbé of the Young Revelers
19666.6
Six in Paris
19656.6
Gare du Nord
19656.3
The Fifteen-Year-Old Widows
19646.8
That Tender Age
19647.0
L'Afrique et la recherche scientifique
1964
Monsieur Albert, prophète
1963
Hampi
1962
The Punishment
19628.0
Niger Festivals: December 1961 - Niger Independence Days
1962
Chronicle of a Summer
19617.2
The Human Pyramid
19616.5
Funérailles au Ghana
1960
The Sons of the Water
19599.0
I, a Negro
19597.4
Moro Naba
19585.2
Baby Ghana
19577.7
The Mad Masters
19556.2
Mammy Water
19535.7
The Rainmakers
19517.2
Cemeteries in the Cliff
19517.0
Battle on the Great River
19506.5
Circumcision
19494.8
Initiation into the Dance of the Possessed
194810.0
The Magicians of Wanzerbé
19487.0
In the Land of the Black Magi
19476.6
