Name
Jean Rouch
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1917-05-31
Deathday
2004-02-18 (87 years old)
Place of Birth
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
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Candid interviews of ordinary people on the meaning of happiness, an often amorphous and i...
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The film narrates a utopian abandonment, consensual and festive of the market economy and ...
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Paris, summer 1960. Anthropologist and filmmaker Jean Rouch and sociologist and film criti...
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The subject of the film was the Hauka movement. The Hauka movement consisted of mimicry an...
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Winner of the prestigious Prix Louis Delluc in 1958, "Moi, un noir" marked Jean Rouch's br...
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An African travels to Paris to learn about the construction of tall buildings, but is soon...
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Six vignettes set in different sections of Paris, by six directors. St. Germain des Pres (...
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The story follows three poultry sellers on a trip across the bush, attempting to deliver a...
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Jean Rouch gives a group of black and white teenagers a "what if" question: what if they s...
- 1977 Samba the Great as Narrator
- 1962 The Doll as Officer (uncredited)
- 1995 Son of Gascogne as Self
- 1977 Ispahan: A Persian Letter (The Chah Mosque at Ispahan) as Lui-même
- 2003 Encountering Jean Rouch
- 1992 Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave as Self
- 1997 A Friendly Handshake
- 2010 The Dreamed Films as Self
- 1959 The Sons of the Water
- 1966 World Without a Game as Self
- 1964 La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même as Self
- Soon Rouch's Gang as Self
- 2002 Mon père c'est un lion - Jean Rouch pour mémoire as Self
- 2011 Jean Epstein, Young Oceans of Cinema as Self (archive footage)
- 1995 Rouch in Reverse as himself
- 2000 Nouvelle Vague : El cine sin dogmas as Self
- 2012 Maya Deren, Take Zero as Himself
- 1998 Ciguri – Tarahumaras 98 - La Danse Du Peyotl as Narrator
- 1955 The Mad Masters as Narrator
- 1980 Ciné-mafia
- 1994 Germaine chez elle as himself
- 1991 Jean Rouch: First Film 1947-1991 as Himself
- 1961 Chronicle of a Summer as Self
- 1999 Cinéma, de notre temps: Mosso, mosso (Jean Rouch comme si...) as Himself
- 2013 My Conversations on Film as Himself
- 1983 Ciné-Portrait of Raymond Depardon as himself
- 1978 Cinématon as N°1256
- 1967 Civilisation: L'homme et les images as Self
- 1998 Pierre Fatumbi Verger: Messenger Between Two Worlds as Self
- 1963 The Lovely Month of May as Self (uncredited)
- 1992 An Egg with No Shell
- 2004 Jean Rouch, des mensonges plus vrais que la réalité as Lui-même
- 1992 Letter to Jean Rouch as Self
- 1999 Ciguri - Tarahumaras 99 - Le dernier chaman as narrador
- Soon Work(ing Together) in Process as Self, the filmmaker before the filmmakers (in 240p)
- 2004 Portrait de Jean Rouch as Self
- 2012 Freddy Buache, le cinéma as Self (archive footage)
- 2017 L’Enigma di Jean Rouch a Torino - Cronaca di un film raté
- 2025 Outlaw as Self
- 1971 Samedi soir ( 1 episode ) as Self
