
Cast
Jean Rouch
Directing
Cast
Jean Rouch
Known for
Directing
Born
1917-05-31
From
Paris, France
Died
2004-02-18
Also known as ì„ ëŁšì
Biography
Jean Rouch (French: [ÊuÊ]; 31 May 1917, Paris â 18 February 2004, Niger) was a French filmmaker and anthropologist. He is considered to be one of the founders of cinĂ©ma-vĂ©ritĂ© 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 CinĂ©ma (Notebooks on Cinema) n°94 April 1959, "In charge of research for the MusĂ©e de l'Homme (French, "Museum of Man") Is there a better definition for a filmmaker?" Along his career, Rouch was no stranger to controversy.

Cinématon
as N°1256

The Lovely Month of May
as Self (uncredited)

Chronicle of a Summer
as Self

Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave
as Self

Son of Gascogne
as Self

Cinéma, de notre temps: Mosso, mosso (Jean Rouch comme si...)
as Himself

The Doll
as Officer (uncredited)

La Nouvelle Vague par elle-mĂȘme
as Self

The Dreamed Films
as Self

My Conversations on Film
as Himself

Jean Epstein, Young Oceans of Cinema
as Self (archive footage)

World Without a Game
as Self

Maya Deren, Take Zero
as Himself

The Mad Masters
as Narrator

Pierre Fatumbi Verger: Messenger Between Two Worlds
as Self

Freddy Buache, le cinéma
as Self (archive footage)

Nouvelle Vague : El cine sin dogmas
as Self

Ciné-Portrait of Raymond Depardon
as himself

Portrait de Jean Rouch
as Self

Germaine chez elle
as himself

Jean Rouch, des mensonges plus vrais que la réalité
as Lui-mĂȘme

Work(ing Together) in Process
as Self, the filmmaker before the filmmakers (in 240p)

Ciné-mafia

Encountering Jean Rouch

Jean Rouch: First Film 1947-1991
as Himself

A Friendly Handshake

Ciguri - Tarahumaras 99 - Le dernier chaman
as narrador

Samba the Great
as Narrator

The Sons of the Water

Civilisation: L'homme et les images
as Self

Rouch's Gang
as Self

Ciguri â Tarahumaras 98 - La Danse Du Peyotl
as Narrator

Ispahan: A Persian Letter (The Chah Mosque at Ispahan)
as Lui-mĂȘme

Outlaw
as Self

Letter to Jean Rouch
as Self

LâEnigma di Jean Rouch a Torino - Cronaca di un film ratĂ©

An Egg with No Shell

Mon pÚre c'est un lion - Jean Rouch pour mémoire
as Self

Rouch in Reverse
as himself