Jean Rouch
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Directing · Born 1917-05-31 · age 86 at death · 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.
Titles
Chronicle of a Summer
The Mad Masters
The Year 01
I, a Negro
Six in Paris
The Human Pyramid
Little by Little
The Lion Hunters
Jaguar
Cock-A-Doodle-Doo! Mr Chicken
Drums from the Past
Cinématon
In the Land of the Black Magi
Sigui 1971: The Dune of Idyeli
Mammy Water
The Fifteen-Year-Old Widows
The Doll
Horendi
Dionysos
The Punishment
Madame l'eau
Brise-glace
Gare du Nord
Cemeteries in the Cliff
Battle on the Great River
Moro Naba
The Goumbé of the Young Revelers
VW-Voyou
Babatou, Three Pieces of Advice
Un lion nommé l'Américain
Makwayela
Circumcision
Baby Ghana
The Rainmakers
Ispahan: A Persian Letter (The Chah Mosque at Ispahan)
An Egg with No Shell
Enigma
Mad Mimes
Badye, the Storyteller
The Sons of the Water
I'm Tired of Standing, I Lie Down
Liberté, égalité, fraternité, et puis après...
The Magicians of Wanzerbé
The Ordinary Madness of a Daughter of Ham
Sigui 1968: The Dancers of Tyogou
Sigui 1970: The Clamours of Amani
Sigui 1973: The Canopy of Circumcision
Boukoki
Sigui 1972: The Loincloths of Yamé
The Burial of the Hogon
Ayorou Singing Stones
Announcement
Pam Kuso Kar (Breaking Pam's Vases)
Architects of Ayorou
Dogon Drums, Elements of a Study in Rhythm
Ciné-Portrait of Raymond Depardon
Initiation into the Dance of the Possessed
Sigui 1969: The Cave of Bongo
Funeral at Bongo: The Death of Old Anai
That Tender Age