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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.
Born
Thursday, 31 May 1917
Died
Wednesday, 18 February 2004
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Journeys Through French Cinema | Self | 2017 |
My Conversations on Film | Himself / Self | 2013 |
Journal de France | Self | 2012 |
Jean Epstein, Young Oceans of Cinema | (archive footage) | 2011 |
Dreaming Film | Self | 2010 |
Jean Rouch, des mensonges plus vrais que la réalité | Lui-même | 2004 |
Cinéma Vérité: Defining the Moment | 2000 | |
Pierre Fatumbi Verger: Mensageiro Entre Dois Mundos | Self | 1998 |
La momie à mi-mots | 1998 | |
Brigade de nuit | 1987 |
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Journeys Through French Cinema | Self | 2017 |
My Conversations on Film | Himself / Self | 2013 |
Journal de France | Self | 2012 |
Jean Epstein, Young Oceans of Cinema | (archive footage) | 2011 |
Dreaming Film | Self | 2010 |
Jean Rouch, des mensonges plus vrais que la réalité | Lui-même | 2004 |
Cinéma Vérité: Defining the Moment | 2000 | |
Pierre Fatumbi Verger: Mensageiro Entre Dois Mundos | Self | 1998 |
La momie à mi-mots | 1998 | |
Brigade de nuit | 1987 | |
Cinématon | Participant / N°1256 | 1978 |
Cinéastes de notre temps | Self | 1964 |
La Nouvelle Vague Par Elle-Meme | Self | 1964 |
Le joli mai | Self / Himself | 1963 |
La poupée | Un officier | 1962 |
Chronicle of a Summer | Himself / Self | 1961 |
Pariser Journal | Self | 1961 |
Moi, un noir | Narrator | 1958 |
The Mad Masters | Narrator | 1955 |
Director Filmography
Title | Year |
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Jaguar | 2005 |
Le rêve plus fort que la mort | 2002 |
Moi fatigué debout, moi couché | 1997 |
Liberté, égalité, fraternité, et puis après... | 1990 |
Cantate pour deux généraux | 1990 |
Boulevards d'Afrique | 1989 |
Ordinary Madness of One of Cham's Daughters | 1986 |
Dionysos | 1984 |
Funeral at Bongo: Old Anaï, 1848–1971 | 1979 |
Babatu | 1976 |
Le Dama d'Ambara, enchanter la mort | 1974 |
Cocorico Monsieur Poulet | 1974 |
The Year 01 | 1973 |
Horendi | 1972 |
Sigui 1972 - les pagnes de Yamé | 1972 |
Little by Little | 1970 |
Hunting the Lion with Bow and Arrow | 1967 |
Six in Paris | 1965 |
La fleur de l'âge, ou Les adolescentes | 1964 |
The Punishment | 1962 |
Chronicle of a Summer | 1961 |
The Human Pyramid | 1961 |
Moi, un noir | 1958 |
The Mad Masters | 1955 |
Mammy Water | 1953 |
Hippopotamus Hunt | 1950 |
Les magiciens de Wanzerbé | 1948 |
Au pays des mages noirs | 1947 |
Producer Filmography
Title | Year |
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Moi, un noir | 1958 |
Mammy Water | 1953 |
Les magiciens de Wanzerbé | 1948 |