Jean Rouch
Directing
Born May 31, 1917 · 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.
Directed (92)
Le Rêve plus fort que la mort
2002
I'm Tired of Standing, I Lie Down
1997
A Friendly Handshake
1997
Announcement
1997
Germaine et ses copains
1996
Germaine chez elle
1994
Madame l'eau
1993
Damouré Speaks About AIDS
1992
Brise-glace
1990
Liberté, égalité, fraternité, et puis après...
1990
Boulevards d'Afrique
1989
Brise-glace : Bateau givre
1987
Cousin, cousine
1987
Couleur du temps. Berlin, Août 1945
1987
Enigma
1986
The Ordinary Madness of a Daughter of Ham
1986
Dionysos
1984
Ciné-Portrait of Raymond Depardon
1983
Sigui Synthesis: The Invention of Speech and Death
1981
Ciné-mafia
1980
Funeral at Bongo: The Death of Old Anai
1979
Margaret Mead: A Portrait By a Friend
1978
Makwayela
1977
Ispahan: A Persian Letter (The Chah Mosque at Ispahan)
1977
Hommage à Marcel Mauss. Germaine Dieterlen
1977
Badye, the Storyteller
1977
Babatou, Three Pieces of Advice
1976
Zomo et ses frères
1975
Cock-A-Doodle-Doo! Mr Chicken
1974
Pam Kuso Kar (Breaking Pam's Vases)
1974
The Dama of Ambara: To Enchant Death
1974
Sigui 1973: The Canopy of Circumcision
1973
Boukoki
1973
The Burial of the Hogon
1973
Funeral Rites for Women in Bongo
1973
VW-Voyou
1973
Giraffe Football or “The Alternative”
1973
Sigui 1972: The Loincloths of Yamé
1972
Horendi
1972
Un lion nommé l'Américain
1972
Sigui 1971: The Dune of Idyeli
1971
Drums from the Past
1971
Sigui 1970: The Clamours of Amani
1970
Little by Little
1970
Architects of Ayorou
1970
Mya - la mère
1970
Sigui 1969: The Cave of Bongo
1969
Sigui 1968: The Dancers of Tyogou
1968
Ayorou Singing Stones
1968
Yenendi de Ganghel (Rain Dance at Ganghel)
1968
Sigui 1967: L'enclume de Yougo
1967
Jaguar
1967
Daouda Sorko
1967
The Lion Hunters
1966
Dogon Drums, Elements of a Study in Rhythm
1966
The Goumbé of the Young Revelers
1966
Six in Paris
1965
Gare du Nord
1965
The Fifteen-Year-Old Widows
1964
That Tender Age
1964
L'Afrique et la recherche scientifique
1964
Monsieur Albert, prophète
1963
Les cocotiers
1963
Le palmier à l'huile
1963
Rose et Landry
1963
Hampi
1962
The Punishment
1962
Niger Festivals: December 1961 - Niger Independence Days
1962
Le mil
1962
Abidjan, port de pêche
1962
Urbanisme africain
1962
Les pêcheurs du Niger
1962
Chronicle of a Summer
1961
The Human Pyramid
1961
Funérailles au Ghana
1960
The Sons of the Water
1959
I, a Negro
1959
Moro Naba
1958
Une sortie de novices de Sakpata
1958
La royale goumbé
1958
Baby Ghana
1957
The Mad Masters
1955
Mammy Water
1953
The Rainmakers
1951
Cemeteries in the Cliff
1951
Les gens du mil
1951
Battle on the Great River
1950
Circumcision
1949
Initiation into the Dance of the Possessed
1948
The Magicians of Wanzerbé
1948
Hombroï
1948
In the Land of the Black Magi
1947
Acting (37)
L’Enigma di Jean Rouch a Torino - Cronaca di un film raté
2017
My Conversations on Film
2013
Freddy Buache, le cinéma
2012
Maya Deren, Take Zero
2012
Jean Epstein, Young Oceans of Cinema
2011
Sodankylä Forever
2010
The Dreamed Films
2010
Portrait de Jean Rouch
2004
Jean Rouch, des mensonges plus vrais que la réalité
2004
Encountering Jean Rouch
2003
Mon père c'est un lion - Jean Rouch pour mémoire
2002
Nouvelle Vague : El cine sin dogmas
2000
Cinéma, de notre temps: Mosso, mosso (Jean Rouch comme si...)
1999
Ciguri - Tarahumaras 99 - Le dernier chaman
1999
Pierre Fatumbi Verger: Messenger Between Two Worlds
1998
Ciguri – Tarahumaras 98 - La Danse Du Peyotl
1998
A Friendly Handshake
1997
Son of Gascogne
1995
Rouch in Reverse
1995
Germaine chez elle
1994
Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave
1992
An Egg with No Shell
1992
Letter to Jean Rouch
1992
Jean Rouch: First Film 1947-1991
1991
Ciné-Portrait of Raymond Depardon
1983
Ciné-mafia
1980
Cinématon
1978
Samba the Great
1977
