Jean Rouch

Birthday: 1917-05-31
Deathday: 2004-02-18
Birthplace: Paris, France
Gender: Male

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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.

Credits

Year Title
2002-01-01 Le Rêve plus fort que la mort
1997-02-22 I'm Tired of Standing, I Lie Down
1997-01-01 A Friendly Handshake
1997-01-01 Announcement
1996-01-01 Germaine et ses copains
1994-01-01 Germaine chez elle
1993-02-25 Madame l'eau
1992-01-01 Damouré Speaks About AIDS
1990-09-05 Brise-glace
1990-01-01 Liberté, égalité, fraternité, et puis après...
1989-01-01 Boulevards d'Afrique
1987-12-15 Brise-glace : Bateau givre
1987-01-01 Cousin, cousine
1987-01-01 Couleur du temps. Berlin, Août 1945
1986-10-10 Enigma
1986-10-01 The Ordinary Madness of a Daughter of Ham
1984-09-04 Dionysos
1983-01-01 Ciné-Portrait of Raymond Depardon
1981-07-06 Sigui Synthesis: The Invention of Speech and Death
1980-07-09 Ciné-mafia
1979-06-25 Funeral at Bongo: The Death of Old Anai
1978-10-04 Margaret Mead: A Portrait By a Friend
1977-05-11 Makwayela
1977-03-01 Ispahan: A Persian Letter (The Chah Mosque at Ispahan)
1977-01-01 Hommage à Marcel Mauss. Germaine Dieterlen
1977-01-01 Badye, the Storyteller
1976-01-01 Babatou, Three Pieces of Advice
1975-01-01 Zomo et ses frères
1974-01-01 Cock-A-Doodle-Doo! Mr Chicken
1974-01-01 Pam Kuso Kar (Breaking Pam's Vases)
1974-01-01 The Dama of Ambara: To Enchant Death
1973-12-01 Sigui 1973: The Canopy of Circumcision
1973-01-01 Boukoki
1973-01-01 The Burial of the Hogon
1973-01-01 Funeral Rites for Women in Bongo
1973-01-01 VW-Voyou
1973-01-01 Giraffe Football or “The Alternative”
1972-12-01 Sigui 1972: The Loincloths of Yamé
1972-01-01 Horendi
1972-01-01 Un lion nommé l'Américain
1971-12-01 Sigui 1971: The Dune of Idyeli
1971-01-01 Drums from the Past
1970-12-01 Sigui 1970: The Clamours of Amani
1970-08-22 Little by Little
1970-01-01 Architects of Ayorou
1970-01-01 Mya - la mère
1969-01-03 Sigui 1969: The Cave of Bongo
1968-12-01 Sigui 1968: The Dancers of Tyogou
1968-01-01 Ayorou Singing Stones
1968-01-01 Yenendi de Ganghel (Rain Dance at Ganghel)
1967-12-01 Sigui 1967: L'enclume de Yougo
1967-09-03 Jaguar
1967-01-01 Daouda Sorko
1966-10-15 The Lion Hunters
1966-01-01 Dogon Drums, Elements of a Study in Rhythm
1966-01-01 The Goumbé of the Young Revelers
1965-05-19 Six in Paris
1965-05-19 Gare du Nord
1964-08-27 The Fifteen-Year-Old Widows
1964-08-19 That Tender Age
1964-01-01 L'Afrique et la recherche scientifique
1963-01-01 Monsieur Albert, prophète
1963-01-01 Les cocotiers
1963-01-01 Le palmier à l'huile
1963-01-01 Rose et Landry
1962-05-07 Hampi
1962-03-10 The Punishment
1962-01-01 Niger Festivals: December 1961 - Niger Independence Days
1962-01-01 Le mil
1962-01-01 Abidjan, port de pêche
1962-01-01 Urbanisme africain
1962-01-01 Les pêcheurs du Niger
1961-10-20 Chronicle of a Summer
1961-04-18 The Human Pyramid
1960-01-01 Funérailles au Ghana
1959-12-10 Les Fils de l'eau
1959-03-12 Moi, un Noir
1958-02-22 Moro Naba
1958-01-01 Une sortie de novices de Sakpata
1958-01-01 La royale goumbé
1957-01-01 Baby Ghana
1955-08-24 The Mad Masters
1953-01-01 Mammy Water
1951-02-22 The Rainmakers
1951-01-01 Cemeteries in the Cliff
1951-01-01 Les gens du mil
1950-12-31 Battle on the Great River
1949-01-01 Circumcision
1948-02-22 Initiation into the Dance of the Possessed
1948-01-02 The Magicians of Wanzerbé
1948-01-01 Hombroï
1947-01-01 In the Land of the Black Magi