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.
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Outlaw
2025·0.0
L’Enigma di Jean Rouch a Torino - Cronaca di un film raté
2017·0.0
My Conversations on Film
2013·3.2
Freddy Buache, le cinéma
2012·0.0
Maya Deren, Take Zero
2012·5.0
Jean Epstein, Young Oceans of Cinema
2011·0.0
The Dreamed Films
2010·7.3
Portrait de Jean Rouch
2004·0.0
Jean Rouch, des mensonges plus vrais que la réalité
2004·0.0
Encountering Jean Rouch
2003·0.0
Mon père c'est un lion - Jean Rouch pour mémoire
2002·10.0
Nouvelle Vague : El cine sin dogmas
2000·8.0
Cinéma, de notre temps: Mosso, mosso (Jean Rouch comme si...)
1999·6.0
Ciguri - Tarahumaras 99 - Le dernier chaman
1999·0.0
Pierre Fatumbi Verger: Messenger Between Two Worlds
1998·9.0
Ciguri – Tarahumaras 98 - La Danse Du Peyotl
1998·0.0
A Friendly Handshake
1997·0.0
Son of Gascogne
1995·5.1
Rouch in Reverse
1995·7.0
Germaine chez elle
1994·0.0
Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave
1992·3.3
An Egg with No Shell
1992·1.0
Letter to Jean Rouch
1992·6.0
Jean Rouch: First Film 1947-1991
1991·0.0
Ciné-Portrait of Raymond Depardon
1983·9.0
Ciné-mafia
1980·0.0
Cinématon
1978·4.9
Samba the Great
1977·5.5
Ispahan: A Persian Letter (The Chah Mosque at Ispahan)
1977·9.0
Civilisation: L'homme et les images
1967·0.0
World Without a Game
1966·0.0
La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même
1964·8.0
The Lovely Month of May
1963·8.0
The Doll
1962·5.7
Chronicle of a Summer
1961·7.2
The Sons of the Water
1959·9.0
The Mad Masters
1955·6.3