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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.
Filmography (119 movies)
10.0
10.0
Baby Ghana
1957
Director
9.0
9.0
Enigma
1986
Director
8.8
8.8
Horendi
1972
Director
8.0
8.0
Ispahan: A Persian Letter (The Chah Mosque at Ispahan)
1977
Director
8.0
8.0
The Lovely Month of May
1963
as Self (uncredited)
8.0
8.0
The Rainmakers
1951
Director
8.0
8.0
Makwayela
1977
Director
7.5
7.5
Couleur du temps. Berlin, Août 1945
1987
Director
7.3
7.3
The Punishment
1962
Screenplay
7.3
7.3
I, a Negro
1959
Writer
7.3
7.3
The Dreamed Films
2010
as Self
7.2
7.2
The Goumbé of the Young Revelers
1966
Director
7.2
7.2
Madame l'eau
1993
Director
7.2
7.2
Little by Little
1970
Director
7.1
7.1
Chronicle of a Summer
1961
Director
7.1
7.1
Sigui 1971: The Dune of Idyeli
1971
Director
6.9
6.9
Cock-A-Doodle-Doo! Mr Chicken
1974
Writer
6.7
6.7
The Fifteen-Year-Old Widows
1964
Director
6.7
6.7
Jaguar
1967
Director
6.5
6.5
Six in Paris
1965
Director
6.5
6.5
The Human Pyramid
1961
Writer
6.5
6.5
Cemeteries in the Cliff
1951
Director
6.4
6.4
In the Land of the Black Magi
1947
Director
6.3
6.3
VW-Voyou
1973
Director
6.2
6.2
The Mad Masters
1955
Director
6.0
6.0
Letter to Jean Rouch
1992
as Self
6.0
6.0
La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même
1964
as Self
6.0
6.0
Cinéma, de notre temps: Mosso, mosso (Jean Rouch comme si...)
1999
as Himself
6.0
6.0
Gare du Nord
1965
Screenplay
6.0
6.0
Un lion nommé l'Américain
1972
Director
5.9
5.9
Drums from the Past
1971
Director
5.8
5.8
Brise-glace
1990
Writer
5.7
5.7
The Lion Hunters
1966
Director
5.7
5.7
Battle on the Great River
1950
Director
5.5
5.5
Badye, the Storyteller
1977
Director
5.0
5.0
Maya Deren, Take Zero
2012
as Himself
5.0
5.0
Samba the Great
1977
as Narrator
5.0
5.0
Mammy Water
1953
Director
5.0
5.0
Babatou, Three Pieces of Advice
1976
Director
5.0
5.0
Dionysos
1984
Director
4.7
4.7
Moro Naba
1958
Director
3.5
3.5
Circumcision
1949
Director
3.3
3.3
Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave
1992
as Self
3.2
3.2
My Conversations on Film
2013
as Himself
1.0
1.0
An Egg with No Shell
1992
Freddy Buache, le cinéma
2012
as Self (archive footage)
Jean Rouch, des mensonges plus vrais que la réalité
2004
as Lui-même
Les Fils de l'eau
1959
Director
Mon père c'est un lion - Jean Rouch pour mémoire
2002
as Self
Rouch's Gang
TBA
as Self
Germaine chez elle
1994
Writer
Work(ing Together) in Process
TBA
as Self, the filmmaker before the filmmakers (in 240p)
Portrait de Jean Rouch
2004
as Self
World Without a Game
1966
as Himself
L’Enigma di Jean Rouch a Torino - Cronaca di un film raté
2017
Encountering Jean Rouch
2003
Nouvelle Vague : El cine sin dogmas
2000
as Self
A Friendly Handshake
1997
Director
Jean Epstein, Young Oceans of Cinema
2011
as Self (archive footage)
Sodankylä Forever
2010
as Self
Rouch in Reverse
1995
as himself
Ciguri – Tarahumaras 98 - La Danse Du Peyotl
1998
as Narrator
Ciné-mafia
1980
Director
Ciguri - Tarahumaras 99 - Le dernier chaman
1999
as narrador
Jean Rouch: First Film 1947-1991
1991
as Himself
Ciné-Portrait of Raymond Depardon
1983
Director
Civilisation: L'homme et les images
1967
Sigui 1969: The Cave of Bongo
1969
Director
That Tender Age
1964
Director
Boulevards d'Afrique
1989
Director
Giraffe Football or “The Alternative”
1973
Director
Margaret Mead: A Portrait By a Friend
1978
Director
I'm Tired of Standing, I Lie Down
1997
Director
Cousin, cousine
1987
Director
Liberté, égalité, fraternité, et puis après...
1990
Director
Mya - la mère
1970
Director
Damouré Speaks About AIDS
1992
Director
Announcement
1997
Director
Pam Kuso Kar (Breaking Pam's Vases)
1974
Director
Niger Festivals: December 1961 - Niger Independence Days
1962
Director
Une sortie de novices de Sakpata
1958
Director
Daouda Sorko
1967
Director
Architects of Ayorou
1970
Director
Sigui 1968: The Dancers of Tyogou
1968
Director
Sigui 1967: L'enclume de Yougo
1967
Director
Sigui 1970: The Clamours of Amani
1970
Director
Funérailles au Ghana
1960
Director
Sigui 1972: The Loincloths of Yamé
1972
Director
Sigui 1973: The Canopy of Circumcision
1973
Director
Ayorou Singing Stones
1968
Director
Boukoki
1973
Director
The Burial of the Hogon
1973
Director
Funeral Rites for Women in Bongo
1973
Director
Le Rêve plus fort que la mort
2002
Writer
Hampi
1962
Director
Yenendi de Ganghel (Rain Dance at Ganghel)
1968
Director
Hommage à Marcel Mauss. Germaine Dieterlen
1977
Director
Germaine et ses copains
1996
Director
L'Afrique et la recherche scientifique
1964
Director
Monsieur Albert, prophète
1963
Director
Zomo et ses frères
1975
Director
Hombroï
1948
Director
Les gens du mil
1951
Director
La royale goumbé
1958
Director
Le palmier à l'huile
1963
Director
Les cocotiers
1963
Director
Abidjan, port de pêche
1962
Director
Urbanisme africain
1962
Director
Rose et Landry
1963
Director
Le mil
1962
Director
Dogon Drums, Elements of a Study in Rhythm
1966
Director
The Ordinary Madness of a Daughter of Ham
1986
Director
Brise-glace : Bateau givre
1987
Director
Sigui Synthesis: The Invention of Speech and Death