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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.
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

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