Jean Rouch
Date of birth: 1917-05-31
Place of birth: Paris, France
Known for: Directing
Also known as: 장 루슈
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.
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Samba the Great
1977-03-26
The adventures of the legendary hero, Sambagana, who, dazzled by the beauty of a princess, asks for
The Doll
1962-11-07
An avant-garde political satire that takes place in a mythical country in South America. The dictato
Son of Gascogne
1995-02-18
You're a provincial kid in Paris and suddenly you're the center of attention: Movie stars, famous di
Ispahan: A Persian Letter (The Chah Mosque at Ispahan)
1977-03-01
Jean Rouch’s camera follows his friend, filmmaker/actor/critic Farrokh Ghaffari, as he walks and tal
Encountering Jean Rouch
2003-01-01
This short film was shot in 2002 during Bilan du Film Ethnographic for the purpose of introducing Je
Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave
1992-06-18
An intimate window into one of the great movements in film history that brought about an evolution i
A Friendly Handshake
1997-01-01
From the bridges of Porto to its estuary, two men are paying tribute to the elegant Douro River. Thr
The Dreamed Films
2010-03-18
Belgian filmmaker Eric Pauwels' meditation on dream, travel and film.
The Sons of the Water
1959-12-10
A compilation of black and white excerpts from five previous color films by Jean Rouch: Yenendi, the
World Without a Game
1966-05-29
Documentary portrait of Dziga Vertov, father of documentary cinema.
La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même
1964-05-19
Made for Cinéastes de notre temps series. In 1964, several French New Wave auteurs discuss the succe
Rouch's Gang
The documentary Rouch's Gang follows the film crew and provides a glimpse behind the scenes as Jean
Mon père c'est un lion - Jean Rouch pour mémoire
2002-01-01
Jean Epstein, Young Oceans of Cinema
2011-01-01
This portrait of the French film theorist and avant-garde director Jean Epstein (1897-1953) concentr
Rouch in Reverse
1995-01-01
Malian filmmaker and New York University professor, Manthia Diawara critiques visual anthropology th
Nouvelle Vague : El cine sin dogmas
2000-04-02
Maya Deren, Take Zero
2012-01-30
This documentary interweaves celluloid and voice recordings by Maya Deren, and colleagues who knew h
Ciguri – Tarahumaras 98 - La Danse Du Peyotl
1998-01-01
A documentary cycle involving the Rarámuri or Tarahumara people of Northern Mexico. This film addres
The Mad Masters
1955-08-24
The subject of the film was the Hauka movement. The Hauka movement consisted of mimicry and dancing
Ciné-mafia
1980-07-09
Three pioneers of documentary filmmaking – Joris Ivens, Henri Storck, and the man behind the camera,
Germaine chez elle
1994-01-01
In front of Jean Rouch's camera, Germaine Dieterlen recalls her ethnographic itinerary, at the Musée
Jean Rouch: First Film 1947-1991
1991-02-26
The first film in Jean Rouch's filmography is not his first film at all. It was edited by a French n
Chronicle of a Summer
1961-10-20
Paris, summer 1960. Anthropologist and filmmaker Jean Rouch and sociologist and film critic Edgar Mo
Cinéma, de notre temps: Mosso, mosso (Jean Rouch comme si...)
1999-08-11
My Conversations on Film
2013-10-13
This distinctly personal journey into the artistic possibilities of independent film is not to be mi
Ciné-Portrait of Raymond Depardon
1983-01-01
A fortuitous meeting, late one afternoon, in the garden of the Tuileries, of one or two cameras, a t
Cinématon
1978-12-20
Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest
Civilisation: L'homme et les images
1967-01-01
Collective contribution to a history of cinema, this issue of the “Civilisations” collection also ta
Pierre Fatumbi Verger: Messenger Between Two Worlds
1998-12-31
Inspired by the life of the french-born photographer and ethnographer, Pierre Verger, the movie foll
The Lovely Month of May
1963-05-03
Candid interviews of ordinary people on the meaning of happiness, an often amorphous and inarticulab
An Egg with No Shell
1992-01-01
A male diva sings in a countertenor voice while massacring chickens brought to him by his butler, Je
Jean Rouch, des mensonges plus vrais que la réalité
2004-03-05
Sodankylä Forever
2010-08-05
The Midnight Sun Film Festival is held every June in the Finnish village of Sodankylä beyond the arc
Letter to Jean Rouch
1992-01-01
This film is a moving tribute to French filmmaker Jean Rouch. Pauwels, a former collaborator of Rouc
Ciguri - Tarahumaras 99 - Le dernier chaman
1999-01-01
Rites of winter, rites of peyote. A creative documentary based on texts by Antonin Artaud read by Je
Work(ing Together) in Process
On a quest to obtain some misdelivered camera batteries, Sam finds himself in a Rotterdam-based sex
Portrait de Jean Rouch
2004-05-04
On the terrace of his regular café haunt in Paris' 14th arrondissement, Jean Rouch regales Noël Sims
Freddy Buache, le cinéma
2012-11-29
A documentary film in which Fabrice Aragno assembles a range of footage from the archives of Radio T
L’Enigma di Jean Rouch a Torino - Cronaca di un film raté
2017-08-23