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
Chronicle of a Summer
Self
The Mad Masters
Narrator
The Lovely Month of May
Self (uncredited)
The Doll
Officer (uncredited)
Son of Gascogne
Self
Cinématon
N°1256
The Dreamed Films
Self
My Conversations on Film
Himself
Samba the Great
Narrator
Ispahan: A Persian Letter (The Chah Mosque at Ispahan)
Lui-même
La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même
Self
An Egg with No Shell
Letter to Jean Rouch
Self
The Sons of the Water
Rouch's Gang
Self
Rouch in Reverse
himself
Nouvelle Vague : El cine sin dogmas
Self
Cinéma, de notre temps: Mosso, mosso (Jean Rouch comme si...)
Himself
Ciné-Portrait of Raymond Depardon
himself
Pierre Fatumbi Verger: Messenger Between Two Worlds
Self
Encountering Jean Rouch
A Friendly Handshake
World Without a Game
Self
Jean Epstein, Young Oceans of Cinema
Self (archive footage)
Ciguri – Tarahumaras 98 - La Danse Du Peyotl
Narrator
Ciné-mafia
Germaine chez elle
himself
Jean Rouch: First Film 1947-1991
Himself
Jean Rouch, des mensonges plus vrais que la réalité
Lui-même
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
Outlaw
Self