Jean Rouch

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.

Known For

Cinématon

Chronicle of a Summer

Son of Gascogne

The Lovely Month of May

The Doll

Pierre Fatumbi Verger: Messenger Between Two Worlds

Freddy Buache, le cinéma

World Without a Game

All Movies (39)

• Outlaw2025 · as Self
• L’Enigma di Jean Rouch a Torino - Cronaca di un film raté2017
• My Conversations on Film2013 · as Himself
• Freddy Buache, le cinéma2012 · as Self (archive footage)
• Maya Deren, Take Zero2012 · as Himself
• Jean Epstein, Young Oceans of Cinema2011 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Dreamed Films2010 · as Self
• Portrait de Jean Rouch2004 · as Self
• Jean Rouch, des mensonges plus vrais que la réalité2004 · as Lui-même
• Encountering Jean Rouch2003
• Mon père c'est un lion - Jean Rouch pour mémoire2002 · as Self
• Nouvelle Vague : El cine sin dogmas2000 · as Self
• Cinéma, de notre temps: Mosso, mosso (Jean Rouch comme si...)1999 · as Himself
• Ciguri - Tarahumaras 99 - Le dernier chaman1999 · as narrador
• Pierre Fatumbi Verger: Messenger Between Two Worlds1998 · as Self
• Ciguri – Tarahumaras 98 - La Danse Du Peyotl1998 · as Narrator
• A Friendly Handshake1997
• Son of Gascogne1995 · as Self
• Rouch in Reverse1995 · as himself
• Germaine chez elle1994 · as himself
• Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave1992 · as Self
• An Egg with No Shell1992
• Letter to Jean Rouch1992 · as Self
• Jean Rouch: First Film 1947-19911991 · as Himself
• Ciné-Portrait of Raymond Depardon1983 · as himself
• Ciné-mafia1980
• Cinématon1978 · as N°1256
• Samba the Great1977 · as Narrator
• Ispahan: A Persian Letter (The Chah Mosque at Ispahan)1977 · as Lui-même
• Civilisation: L'homme et les images1967 · as Self
• World Without a Game1966 · as Self
• La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même1964 · as Self
• The Lovely Month of May1963 · as Self (uncredited)
• The Doll1962 · as Officer (uncredited)
• Chronicle of a Summer1961 · as Self
• The Sons of the Water1959
• The Mad Masters1955 · as Narrator
• Rouch's Gang— · as Self
• Work(ing Together) in Process— · as Self, the filmmaker before the filmmakers (in 240p)

All TV Shows (1)

• Samedi soir1971 · as Self