Jean Rouch
Directing • Born 1917-05-31 – Died 2004-02-18
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.
Filmography
40 credits
Samba the Great
Movie • 1977
Narrator
The Doll
Movie • 1962
Officer (uncredited)
Son of Gascogne
Movie • 1995
Self
Ispahan: A Persian Letter (The Chah Mosque at Ispahan)
Movie • 1977
Lui-même
Encountering Jean Rouch
Movie • 2003
Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave
Movie • 1992
Self
A Friendly Handshake
Movie • 1997
The Dreamed Films
Movie • 2010
Self
The Sons of the Water
Movie • 1959
World Without a Game
Movie • 1966
Himself
La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même
Movie • 1964
Self
Rouch's Gang
Movie
Self
Mon père c'est un lion - Jean Rouch pour mémoire
Movie • 2002
Self
Jean Epstein, Young Oceans of Cinema
Movie • 2011
Self (archive footage)
Rouch in Reverse
Movie • 1995
himself
Nouvelle Vague : El cine sin dogmas
Movie • 2000
Self
Maya Deren, Take Zero
Movie • 2012
Himself
Ciguri – Tarahumaras 98 - La Danse Du Peyotl
Movie • 1998
Narrator
The Mad Masters
Movie • 1955
Narrator
Ciné-mafia
Movie • 1980
Germaine chez elle
Movie • 1994
himself
Jean Rouch: First Film 1947-1991
Movie • 1991
Himself
Chronicle of a Summer
Movie • 1961
Self
Cinéma, de notre temps: Mosso, mosso (Jean Rouch comme si...)
Movie • 1999
Himself
My Conversations on Film
Movie • 2013
Himself
Ciné-Portrait of Raymond Depardon
Movie • 1983
himself
Cinématon
Movie • 1978
N°1256
Civilisation: L'homme et les images
Movie • 1967
Self
Pierre Fatumbi Verger: Messenger Between Two Worlds
Movie • 1998
Self
The Lovely Month of May
Movie • 1963
Self (uncredited)
An Egg with No Shell
Movie • 1992
Jean Rouch, des mensonges plus vrais que la réalité
Movie • 2004
Lui-même
Sodankylä Forever
Movie • 2010
Self
Letter to Jean Rouch
Movie • 1992
Self
Ciguri - Tarahumaras 99 - Le dernier chaman
Movie • 1999
narrador
Work(ing Together) in Process
Movie
Self, the filmmaker before the filmmakers (in 240p)
Portrait de Jean Rouch
Movie • 2004
Self
Freddy Buache, le cinéma
Movie • 2012
Self (archive footage)
L’Enigma di Jean Rouch a Torino - Cronaca di un film raté
Movie • 2017
Samedi soir
TV • 1971
Self