Jean Rouch
Directing
Born May 31, 1917 in Paris, France
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
Rouch's Gang
Self
Work(ing Together) in Process
Self, the filmmaker before the filmmakers (in 240p)
Outlaw
Self
L’Enigma di Jean Rouch a Torino - Cronaca di un film raté
My Conversations on Film
Himself
Freddy Buache, le cinéma
Self (archive footage)
Mad Mimes
Jean Epstein, Young Oceans of Cinema
Self (archive footage)
The Dreamed Films
Self
Portrait de Jean Rouch
Self
Jean Rouch, des mensonges plus vrais que la réalité
Lui-même
Encountering Jean Rouch
Nouvelle Vague : El cine sin dogmas
Self
Cinéma, de notre temps: Mosso, mosso (Jean Rouch comme si...)
Himself
Ciguri - Tarahumaras 99 - Le dernier chaman
narrador
Pierre Fatumbi Verger: Messenger Between Two Worlds
Self
Ciguri – Tarahumaras 98 - La Danse Du Peyotl
Narrator
A Friendly Handshake
Germaine et ses copains
Son of Gascogne
Self
Germaine chez elle
himself
An Egg with No Shell
Letter to Jean Rouch
Self
Damouré Speaks About AIDS
Jean Rouch: First Film 1947-1991
Himself
Brise-glace
Cousin, cousine
Couleur du temps. Berlin, Août 1945
Enigma
The Ordinary Madness of a Daughter of Ham
Ciné-Portrait of Raymond Depardon
himself
Funeral at Bongo: The Death of Old Anai
Cinématon
N°1256
Margaret Mead: A Portrait By a Friend
Makwayela
Samba the Great
Narrator
Ispahan: A Persian Letter (The Chah Mosque at Ispahan)
Lui-même
Hommage à Marcel Mauss. Germaine Dieterlen
Badye, the Storyteller
Babatou, Three Pieces of Advice
Zomo et ses frères
Cock-A-Doodle-Doo! Mr Chicken
Pam Kuso Kar (Breaking Pam's Vases)
The Dama of Ambara: To Enchant Death
The Year 01
Boukoki
The Burial of the Hogon
Funeral Rites for Women in Bongo
VW-Voyou
Giraffe Football or “The Alternative”
Horendi
Un lion nommé l'Américain
Sigui 1971: The Dune of Idyeli
Drums from the Past
Sigui 1970: The Clamours of Amani
Little by Little
Architects of Ayorou
Mya - la mère
Sigui 1969: The Cave of Bongo
Sigui 1968: The Dancers of Tyogou
Ayorou Singing Stones
Yenendi de Ganghel (Rain Dance at Ganghel)
Sigui 1967: L'enclume de Yougo
Jaguar
Daouda Sorko
The Lion Hunters
World Without a Game
Self
Dogon Drums, Elements of a Study in Rhythm
The Goumbé of the Young Revelers
Six in Paris
Gare du Nord
The Fifteen-Year-Old Widows
That Tender Age
La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même
Self
L'Afrique et la recherche scientifique
The Lovely Month of May
Self (uncredited)
Monsieur Albert, prophète
The Doll
Officer (uncredited)
Hampi
The Punishment
Niger Festivals: December 1961 - Niger Independence Days
Chronicle of a Summer
Self
The Human Pyramid
Funérailles au Ghana
The Sons of the Water
I, a Negro
Moro Naba
Baby Ghana
The Mad Masters
Narrator
Mammy Water
The Rainmakers
Cemeteries in the Cliff
Battle on the Great River
Circumcision
Initiation into the Dance of the Possessed
The Magicians of Wanzerbé
In the Land of the Black Magi