Jean Rouch
Directing
1917-05-31 · 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.
Filmography
Outlaw
2025 · Movie
L’Enigma di Jean Rouch a Torino - Cronaca di un film raté
2017 · Movie
My Conversations on Film
2013 · Movie
Freddy Buache, le cinéma
2012 · Movie
Mad Mimes
2012 · Movie
Maya Deren, Take Zero
2012 · Movie
Jean Epstein, Young Oceans of Cinema
2011 · Movie
The Dreamed Films
2010 · Movie
Portrait de Jean Rouch
2004 · Movie
Jean Rouch, des mensonges plus vrais que la réalité
2004 · Movie
Encountering Jean Rouch
2003 · Movie
Le Rêve plus fort que la mort
2002 · Movie
Mon père c'est un lion - Jean Rouch pour mémoire
2002 · Movie
Nouvelle Vague : El cine sin dogmas
2000 · Movie
Cinéma, de notre temps: Mosso, mosso (Jean Rouch comme si...)
1999 · Movie
Ciguri - Tarahumaras 99 - Le dernier chaman
1999 · Movie
Pierre Fatumbi Verger: Messenger Between Two Worlds
1998 · Movie
Ciguri – Tarahumaras 98 - La Danse Du Peyotl
1998 · Movie
I'm Tired of Standing, I Lie Down
1997 · Movie
A Friendly Handshake
1997 · Movie
Announcement
1997 · Movie
Germaine et ses copains
1996 · Movie
Son of Gascogne
1995 · Movie
Rouch in Reverse
1995 · Movie
Germaine chez elle
1994 · Movie
Madame l'eau
1993 · Movie
Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave
1992 · Movie
Damouré Speaks About AIDS
1992 · Movie
An Egg with No Shell
1992 · Movie
Letter to Jean Rouch
1992 · Movie
Jean Rouch: First Film 1947-1991
1991 · Movie
Brise-glace
1990 · Movie
Liberté, égalité, fraternité, et puis après...
1990 · Movie
Boulevards d'Afrique
1989 · Movie
Brise-glace : Bateau givre
1987 · Movie
Cousin, cousine
1987 · Movie
Couleur du temps. Berlin, Août 1945
1987 · Movie
Enigma
1986 · Movie
The Ordinary Madness of a Daughter of Ham
1986 · Movie
Ciné-Portrait de Bill Witney
1986 · Movie
Dionysos
1984 · Movie
Hampâté Bâ
1984 · Movie
Ciné-Portrait of Raymond Depardon
1983 · Movie
Sigui Synthesis: The Invention of Speech and Death
1981 · Movie
Ciné-mafia
1980 · Movie
Funeral at Bongo: The Death of Old Anai
1979 · Movie
Cinématon
1978 · Movie
Margaret Mead: A Portrait By a Friend
1978 · Movie
Ciné-Portrait de Stanislas Adotevi
1978 · Movie
Makwayela
1977 · Movie
Samba the Great
1977 · Movie
Ispahan: A Persian Letter (The Chah Mosque at Ispahan)
1977 · Movie
Hommage à Marcel Mauss. Germaine Dieterlen
1977 · Movie
Badye, the Storyteller
1977 · Movie
Babatou, Three Pieces of Advice
1976 · Movie
Zomo et ses frères
1975 · Movie
Pam Kuso Kar (Breaking Pam's Vases)
1974 · Movie
Cock-A-Doodle-Doo! Mr Chicken
1974 · Movie
The Dama of Ambara: To Enchant Death
1974 · Movie
Sigui 1973: The Canopy of Circumcision
1973 · Movie
The Year 01
1973 · Movie
VW-Voyou
1973 · Movie
The Burial of the Hogon
1973 · Movie
Funeral Rites for Women in Bongo
1973 · Movie
Boukoki
1973 · Movie
Giraffe Football or “The Alternative”
1973 · Movie
Hommage à Marcel Mauss : Taro Okamoto
1973 · Movie
Sigui 1972: The Loincloths of Yamé
1972 · Movie
Horendi
1972 · Movie
Un lion nommé l'Américain
1972 · Movie
Sigui 1971: The Dune of Idyeli
1971 · Movie
Samedi soir
1971 · Series
Drums from the Past
1971 · Movie
Sigui 1970: The Clamours of Amani
1970 · Movie
Little by Little
1970 · Movie
Architects of Ayorou
1970 · Movie
Mya - la mère
1970 · Movie
Sigui 1969: The Cave of Bongo
1969 · Movie
Sigui 1968: The Dancers of Tyogou
1968 · Movie
Yenendi de Ganghel (Rain Dance at Ganghel)
1968 · Movie
Ayorou Singing Stones
1968 · Movie
Sigui 1967: L'enclume de Yougo
1967 · Movie
Jaguar
1967 · Movie
Civilisation: L'homme et les images
1967 · Movie
Daouda Sorko
1967 · Movie
The Lion Hunters
1966 · Movie
World Without a Game
1966 · Movie
The Goumbé of the Young Revelers
1966 · Movie
Dogon Drums, Elements of a Study in Rhythm
1966 · Movie
Six in Paris
1965 · Movie
Gare du Nord
1965 · Movie
The Fifteen-Year-Old Widows
1964 · Movie
That Tender Age
1964 · Movie
La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même
1964 · Movie
L'Afrique et la recherche scientifique
1964 · Movie
The Lovely Month of May
1963 · Movie
Rose et Landry
1963 · Movie
Les cocotiers
1963 · Movie
Le palmier à l'huile
1963 · Movie
Monsieur Albert, prophète
1963 · Movie
The Doll
1962 · Movie
Hampi
1962 · Movie
The Punishment
1962 · Movie
Niger Festivals: December 1961 - Niger Independence Days
1962 · Movie
Urbanisme africain
1962 · Movie
Abidjan, port de pêche
1962 · Movie
Le mil
1962 · Movie
Les pêcheurs du Niger
1962 · Movie
Chronicle of a Summer
1961 · Movie
The Human Pyramid
1961 · Movie
Funérailles au Ghana
1960 · Movie
The Sons of the Water
1959 · Movie
I, a Negro
1959 · Movie
Moro Naba
1958 · Movie
Une sortie de novices de Sakpata
1958 · Movie
La royale goumbé
1958 · Movie
Baby Ghana
1957 · Movie
The Mad Masters
1955 · Movie
Mammy Water
1953 · Movie
The Rainmakers
1951 · Movie
Les gens du mil
1951 · Movie
Cemeteries in the Cliff
1951 · Movie
Battle on the Great River
1950 · Movie
Circumcision
1949 · Movie
Initiation into the Dance of the Possessed
1948 · Movie
The Magicians of Wanzerbé
1948 · Movie
Hombroï
1948 · Movie
In the Land of the Black Magi
1947 · Movie
Work(ing Together) in Process
Movie
Rouch's Gang
Movie