Jean Rouch
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.
Chronicle of a Summer
as SelfParis, summer 1960. Anthropologist and filmmaker Jean Rouch and sociologist and film critic...
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The Lovely Month of May
as Self (uncredited)Candid interviews of ordinary people on the meaning of happiness, an often amorphous and...
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The Doll
as uncreditedAn avant-garde political satire that takes place in a mythical country in South America. The...
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Son of Gascogne
as SelfYou're a provincial kid in Paris and suddenly you're the center of attention: Movie stars,...
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La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même
as SelfMade for Cinéastes de notre temps series. In 1964, several French New Wave auteurs discuss the...
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Sodankylä Forever
as SelfThe Midnight Sun Film Festival is held every June in the Finnish village of Sodankylä beyond the...
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The Mad Masters
as NarratorThe subject of the film was the Hauka movement. The Hauka movement consisted of mimicry and...
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My Conversations on Film
as HimselfThis distinctly personal journey into the artistic possibilities of independent film is not to...
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Samba the Great
as NarratorThe adventures of a legendary hero who, dazzled by the beauty of a princess in the hand asks....
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Pierre Fatumbi Verger: Messenger Between Two Worlds
as SelfInspired by the life of the french-born photographer and ethnographer, Pierre Verger, the movie...
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Ciné-Portrait of Raymond Depardon
as himselfA fortuitous meeting, late one afternoon, in the garden of the Tuileries, of one or two cameras,...
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A Friendly Handshake
as uncreditedFrom the bridges of Porto to its estuary, two men are paying tribute to the elegant Douro River....
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Les Fils de l'eau
as uncreditedA compilation of black and white excerpts from five previous color films by Jean Rouch: Yenendi,...
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World Without a Game
as HimselfDocumentary portrait of Dziga Vertov, father of documentary cinema.
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Jean Epstein, Young Oceans of Cinema
as Self (archive footage)This portrait of the French film theorist and avant-garde director Jean Epstein (1897-1953)...
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Cinéma, de notre temps: Mosso, mosso (Jean Rouch comme si...)
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The Dreamed Films
as SelfBelgian filmmaker Eric Pauwels' meditation on dream, travel and film.
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Letter to Jean Rouch
as HimselfThis film is a moving tribute to French filmmaker Jean Rouch. Pauwels, a former collaborator of...
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Ispahan: A Persian Letter (The Chah Mosque at Ispahan)
as Lui-mêmeJean Rouch’s camera follows his friend, filmmaker/actor/critic Farrokh Ghaffari, as he walks and...
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An Egg with No Shell
as uncreditedA male diva sings in a countertenor voice while massacring chickens brought to him by his...
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Encountering Jean Rouch
as uncreditedThis short film was shot in 2002 during Bilan du Film Ethnographic for the purpose of...
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Rouch's Gang
as SelfThe documentary Rouch's Gang follows the film crew and provides a glimpse behind the scenes as...
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