Jean Rouch
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Biography

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.

Films Featuring Jean Rouch

Samba the Great

19775.5

The Doll

19625.5

Son of Gascogne

19955.1

Ispahan: A Persian Letter (The Chah Mosque at Ispahan)

19779.0

Encountering Jean Rouch

2003

Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave

Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave

19923.3

A Friendly Handshake

1997

The Dreamed Films

20107.3

The Sons of the Water

19599.0

World Without a Game

1966

La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même

19648.0

Rouch's Gang

7.0

Mon père c'est un lion - Jean Rouch pour mémoire

Mon père c'est un lion - Jean Rouch pour mémoire

200210.0

Jean Epstein, Young Oceans of Cinema

2011

Rouch in Reverse

Rouch in Reverse

19957.0

Nouvelle Vague : El cine sin dogmas

20008.0

Maya Deren, Take Zero

Maya Deren, Take Zero

20125.0

Ciguri – Tarahumaras 98 - La Danse Du Peyotl

1998

The Mad Masters

19556.3

Ciné-mafia

Ciné-mafia

1980

Germaine chez elle

1994

Jean Rouch: First Film 1947-1991

1991

Chronicle of a Summer

19617.2

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

19996.0

My Conversations on Film

20133.2

Ciné-Portrait of Raymond Depardon

19839.0

Cinématon

19784.9

Civilisation: L'homme et les images

Civilisation: L'homme et les images

1967

Pierre Fatumbi Verger: Messenger Between Two Worlds

19989.0

The Lovely Month of May

19638.0

An Egg with No Shell

19921.0

Jean Rouch, des mensonges plus vrais que la réalité

2004

Letter to Jean Rouch

19926.0

Ciguri - Tarahumaras 99 - Le dernier chaman

1999

Work(ing Together) in Process

Portrait de Jean Rouch

2004

Freddy Buache, le cinéma

2012

L’Enigma di Jean Rouch a Torino - Cronaca di un film raté

2017

Outlaw

2025