Directing
Community Rating
7.4
TMDB estimate
Born
May 31, 1917
Died
February 18, 2004 (age 86)
Born in
Paris, France
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.
Rouch's Gang
as Self
TBA
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Work(ing Together) in Process
as Self, the filmmaker before the filmmakers (in 240p)
TBA
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L’Enigma di Jean Rouch a Torino - Cronaca di un film raté
2017
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My Conversations on Film
as Himself
2013
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Freddy Buache, le cinéma
as Self (archive footage)
2012
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Mad Mimes
as Property Builder
2012
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Maya Deren, Take Zero
as Himself
2012
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Jean Epstein, Young Oceans of Cinema
as Self (archive footage)
2011
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Sodankylä Forever
as Self
2010
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The Dreamed Films
as Self
2010
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Portrait de Jean Rouch
as Self
2004
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Jean Rouch, des mensonges plus vrais que la réalité
as Lui-même
2004
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Encountering Jean Rouch
2003
—Mon père c'est un lion - Jean Rouch pour mémoire
as Self
2002
—Le Rêve plus fort que la mort
as Director, Writer
2002
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Nouvelle Vague : El cine sin dogmas
as Self
2000
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Cinéma, de notre temps: Mosso, mosso (Jean Rouch comme si...)
as Himself
1999
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Ciguri - Tarahumaras 99 - Le dernier chaman
as narrador
1999
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Pierre Fatumbi Verger: Messenger Between Two Worlds
as Self
1998
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Ciguri – Tarahumaras 98 - La Danse Du Peyotl
as Narrator
1998
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