Jean Rouch
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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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- 2013 · My Conversations on Film as Himself
- 2012 · Maya Deren, Take Zero as Himself
- 2011 · Jean Epstein, Young Oceans of Cinema as Self (archive footage)
- 2010 · Sodankylä Forever as Self
- 2010 · The Dreamed Films as Self
- 2004 · Jean Rouch, des mensonges plus vrais que la réalité as Lui-même
- 2003 · Encountering Jean Rouch as
- 2002 · Mon père c'est un lion - Jean Rouch pour mémoire as Self
- 2000 · Nouvelle Vague : El cine sin dogmas as Self
- 1999 · Cinéma, de notre temps: Mosso, mosso (Jean Rouch comme si...) as Himself
- 1999 · Ciguri - Tarahumaras 99 - Le dernier chaman as narrador
- 1998 · Pierre Fatumbi Verger: Messenger Between Two Worlds as Self
- 1998 · Ciguri – Tarahumaras 98 - La Danse Du Peyotl as Narrator
- 1997 · A Friendly Handshake as
- 1995 · Son of Gascogne as Self
- 1995 · Rouch in Reverse as himself
- 1994 · Germaine chez elle as himself
- 1992 · Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave as Self
- 1992 · Letter to Jean Rouch as Himself
- 1992 · An Egg with No Shell as
- 1991 · Jean Rouch: First Film 1947-1991 as Himself
- 1983 · Ciné-Portrait of Raymond Depardon as himself
- 1980 · Ciné-mafia as
- 1978 · Cinématon as N°1256
- 1977 · Samba the Great as Narrator
- 1977 · Ispahan: A Persian Letter (The Chah Mosque at Ispahan) as Lui-même
- 1971 · Samedi soir as Self
- 1967 · Civilisation: L'homme et les images as
- 1966 · World Without a Game as Himself
- 1964 · La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même as Self
- 1963 · The Lovely Month of May as Self (uncredited)
- 1962 · The Doll as
- 1961 · Chronicle of a Summer as Self
- 1959 · Les Fils de l'eau as
- 1955 · The Mad Masters as Narrator
- Future · Rouch's Gang as Self