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

Work(ing Together) in Process
as Self, the filmmaker before the filmmakers (in 240p)
TBA

L’Enigma di Jean Rouch a Torino - Cronaca di un film raté
2017

My Conversations on Film
as Himself
2013

Freddy Buache, le cinéma
as Self (archive footage)
2012

Mad Mimes
as Property Builder
2012
Maya Deren, Take Zero
as Himself
2012

Jean Epstein, Young Oceans of Cinema
as Self (archive footage)
2011

Sodankylä Forever
as Self
2010

The Dreamed Films
as Self
2010

Portrait de Jean Rouch
as Self
2004

Jean Rouch, des mensonges plus vrais que la réalité
as Lui-même
2004

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

Nouvelle Vague : El cine sin dogmas
as Self
2000

Cinéma, de notre temps: Mosso, mosso (Jean Rouch comme si...)
as Himself
1999

Ciguri - Tarahumaras 99 - Le dernier chaman
as narrador
1999

Pierre Fatumbi Verger: Messenger Between Two Worlds
as Self
1998

Ciguri – Tarahumaras 98 - La Danse Du Peyotl
as Narrator
1998