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Jean Rouch

May 31, 1917 - Paris, France

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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.

Known For Credits

Credits

Cast

Media
Movie	1977	Samba the Great	Narrator
Movie	1962	The Doll	Officer (uncredited)
Movie	1995	Son of Gascogne	Self
Movie	1977	Ispahan: A Persian Letter (The Chah Mosque at Ispahan)	Lui-même
Movie	2003	Encountering Jean Rouch
Movie	1992	Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave	Self
Movie	1997	A Friendly Handshake
Movie	2010	The Dreamed Films	Self
Movie	1959	Les Fils de l'eau
Movie	1966	World Without a Game	Himself
Movie	1964	La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même	Self
Movie	N/A	Rouch's Gang	Self
Movie	2002	Mon père c'est un lion - Jean Rouch pour mémoire	Self
Movie	2011	Jean Epstein, Young Oceans of Cinema	Self (archive footage)
Movie	1995	Rouch in Reverse	himself
Movie	2000	Nouvelle Vague : El cine sin dogmas	Self
Movie	2012	Maya Deren, Take Zero	Himself
Movie	1998	Ciguri – Tarahumaras 98 - La Danse Du Peyotl	Narrator
Movie	1955	The Mad Masters	Narrator
Movie	1980	Ciné-mafia
Movie	1994	Germaine chez elle	himself
Movie	1991	Jean Rouch: First Film 1947-1991	Himself
Movie	1961	Chronicle of a Summer	Self
Movie	1999	Cinéma, de notre temps: Mosso, mosso (Jean Rouch comme si...)	Himself
Movie	2013	My Conversations on Film	Himself
Movie	1983	Ciné-Portrait of Raymond Depardon	himself
Movie	1978	Cinématon	N°1256
Movie	1967	Civilisation: L'homme et les images
Movie	1998	Pierre Fatumbi Verger: Messenger Between Two Worlds	Self
Movie	1963	The Lovely Month of May	Self (uncredited)
Movie	1992	An Egg with No Shell
Movie	2004	Jean Rouch, des mensonges plus vrais que la réalité	Lui-même
Movie	2010	Sodankylä Forever	Self
Movie	1992	Letter to Jean Rouch	Himself
Movie	1999	Ciguri - Tarahumaras 99 - Le dernier chaman	narrador
Movie	N/A	Work(ing Together) in Process	Self, the filmmaker before the filmmakers (in 240p)
Movie	2004	Portrait de Jean Rouch	Self
Movie	2012	Freddy Buache, le cinéma	Self (archive footage)
TV Show	1971	Samedi soir	Self	1

Crew

Media
Movie	1959	Les Fils de l'eau	Director	Directing
Movie	1959	I, a Negro	Director	Directing
Movie	1974	Cock-A-Doodle-Doo! Mr Chicken	Director	Directing
Movie	1965	Six in Paris	Director	Directing
Movie	1955	The Mad Masters	Director	Directing
Movie	1961	Chronicle of a Summer	Director	Directing
Movie	1966	The Lion Hunters	Director	Directing
Movie	1997	I'm Tired of Standing, I Lie Down	Director	Directing
Movie	1997	I'm Tired of Standing, I Lie Down	Cinematography	Crew
Movie	1987	Cousin, cousine	Director	Directing
Movie	1970	Little by Little	Director	Directing
Movie	1967	Jaguar	Director	Directing
Movie	1972	Horendi	Director	Directing
Movie	1961	The Human Pyramid	Director	Directing
Movie	1984	Dionysos	Director	Directing
Movie	1973	The Year 01	Co-Director	Directing
Movie	1997	A Friendly Handshake	Director	Directing
Movie	1990	Liberté, égalité, fraternité, et puis après...	Director	Directing
Movie	1947	In the Land of the Black Magi	Director	Directing
Movie	1962	The Punishment	Screenplay	Writing
Movie	1962	The Punishment	Director	Directing
Movie	1976	Babatou, Three Pieces of Advice	Director	Directing
Movie	1948	The Magicians of Wanzerbé	Director	Directing
Movie	1986	The Ordinary Madness of a Daughter of Ham	Director	Directing
Movie	1967	Sigui 1967: L'enclume de Yougo	Director	Directing
Movie	1968	Sigui 1968: The Dancers of Tyogou	Director	Directing
Movie	1970	Sigui 1970: The Clamours of Amani	Director	Directing
Movie	1971	Sigui 1971: The Dune of Idyeli	Director	Directing
Movie	1968	Ayorou Singing Stones	Director	Directing
Movie	1973	Boukoki	Director	Directing
Movie	1972	Sigui 1972: The Loincloths of Yamé	Director	Directing
Movie	1973	Sigui 1973: The Canopy of Circumcision	Director	Directing
Movie	1973	The Burial of the Hogon	Director	Directing
Movie	1971	Drums from the Past	Cinematography	Crew
Movie	1971	Drums from the Past	Writer	Writing
Movie	1971	Drums from the Past	Director	Directing
Movie	1973	Funeral Rites for Women in Bongo	Director	Directing
Movie	1992	Damouré Speaks About AIDS	Director	Directing
Movie	1997	Announcement	Director	Directing
Movie	1953	Mammy Water	Director	Directing
Movie	1953	Mammy Water	Producer	Production
Movie	1974	Pam Kuso Kar (Breaking Pam's Vases)	Director	Directing
Movie	1953	Mammy Water	Writer	Writing
Movie	1953	Mammy Water	Cinematography	Crew
Movie	1970	Architects of Ayorou	Director	Directing
Movie	1955	The Mad Masters	Cinematography	Crew
Movie	1951	Cemeteries in the Cliff	Director	Directing
Movie	1977	Ispahan: A Persian Letter (The Chah Mosque at Ispahan)	Director	Directing
Movie	1959	I, a Negro	Writer	Writing
Movie	1959	I, a Negro	Producer	Production
Movie	1950	Battle on the Great River	Director	Directing
Movie	1993	Madame l'eau	Director	Directing
Movie	1972	Un lion nommé l'Américain	Director	Directing
Movie	1980	Ciné-mafia	Director	Directing
Movie	1966	Dogon Drums, Elements of a Study in Rhythm	Director	Directing
Movie	1964	The Fifteen-Year-Old Widows	Director	Directing
Movie	1974	Cock-A-Doodle-Doo! Mr Chicken	Writer	Writing
Movie	1970	Little by Little	Writer	Writing
Movie	1980	Ciné-mafia	Cinematography	Crew
Movie	1966	The Lion Hunters	Director of Photography	Camera
Movie	1990	Brise-glace	Director	Directing
Movie	1987	Brise-glace : Bateau givre	Editor	Editing
Movie	1990	Brise-glace	Editor	Editing
Movie	1987	Brise-glace : Bateau givre	Writer	Writing
Movie	1987	Brise-glace : Bateau givre	Director of Photography	Camera
Movie	1990	Brise-glace	Writer	Writing
Movie	1987	Brise-glace : Bateau givre	Director	Directing
Movie	1990	Brise-glace	Director of Photography	Camera
Movie	1981	Sigui Synthesis: The Invention of Speech and Death	Director	Directing
Movie	1976	Babatou, Three Pieces of Advice	Director of Photography	Camera
Movie	1977	Makwayela	Director	Directing
Movie	1949	Circumcision	Director	Directing
Movie	1949	Circumcision	Producer	Production
Movie	1949	Circumcision	Cinematography	Crew
Movie	1986	Enigma	Director	Directing
Movie	1962	Niger Festivals: December 1961 - Niger Independence Days	Director	Directing
Movie	1983	Ciné-Portrait of Raymond Depardon	Director of Photography	Camera
Movie	1983	Ciné-Portrait of Raymond Depardon	Director	Directing
Movie	1965	Six in Paris	Writer	Writing
Movie	1970	Little by Little	Director of Photography	Camera
Movie	1974	Cock-A-Doodle-Doo! Mr Chicken	Director of Photography	Camera
Movie	1951	The Rainmakers	Director	Directing
Movie	1958	Moro Naba	Director	Directing
Movie	1957	Baby Ghana	Director	Directing
Movie	1948	Initiation into the Dance of the Possessed	Director	Directing
Movie	1958	Une sortie de novices de Sakpata	Director	Directing
Movie	2012	Mad Mimes	Property Builder	Art
Movie	1966	The Goumbé of the Young Revelers	Writer	Writing
Movie	1966	The Goumbé of the Young Revelers	Director of Photography	Camera
Movie	2002	Le Rêve plus fort que la mort	Director	Directing
Movie	2002	Le Rêve plus fort que la mort	Writer	Writing
Movie	1974	The Dama of Ambara: To Enchant Death	Director	Directing
Movie	1974	The Dama of Ambara: To Enchant Death	Writer	Writing
Movie	1967	Daouda Sorko	Director	Directing
Movie	1965	Gare du Nord	Director	Directing
Movie	1965	Gare du Nord	Screenplay	Writing
Movie	1969	Sigui 1969: The Cave of Bongo	Director	Directing
Movie	1979	Funeral at Bongo: The Death of Old Anai	Director	Directing
Movie	1962	Hampi	Director	Directing
Movie	1968	Yenendi de Ganghel (Rain Dance at Ganghel)	Director	Directing
Movie	1994	Germaine chez elle	Director	Directing
Movie	1977	Hommage à Marcel Mauss. Germaine Dieterlen	Director	Directing
Movie	1994	Germaine chez elle	Writer	Writing
Movie	1996	Germaine et ses copains	Director	Directing
Movie	1977	Badye, the Storyteller	Director	Directing
Movie	1975	Zomo et ses frères	Director	Directing
Movie	1964	L'Afrique et la recherche scientifique	Director	Directing
Movie	1963	Monsieur Albert, prophète	Director	Directing
Movie	1964	That Tender Age	Director	Directing
Movie	1948	Hombroï	Director	Directing
Movie	1963	Le palmier à l'huile	Director	Directing
Movie	1963	Les cocotiers	Director	Directing
Movie	1962	Abidjan, port de pêche	Director	Directing
Movie	1962	Urbanisme africain	Director	Directing
Movie	1951	Les gens du mil	Director	Directing
Movie	1962	Les pêcheurs du Niger	Director	Directing
Movie	1958	La royale goumbé	Director	Directing
Movie	1962	Le mil	Director	Directing
Movie	1963	Rose et Landry	Director	Directing
Movie	1961	The Human Pyramid	Cinematography	Crew
Movie	1967	Jaguar	Director of Photography	Camera
Movie	1966	The Goumbé of the Young Revelers	Director	Directing
Movie	1989	Boulevards d'Afrique	Director	Directing
Movie	1961	The Human Pyramid	Writer	Writing
Movie	1973	VW-Voyou	Director	Directing
Movie	1973	Giraffe Football or “The Alternative”	Director	Directing
Movie	1978	Margaret Mead: A Portrait By a Friend	Director	Directing
Movie	1970	Mya - la mère	Director	Directing
Movie	1960	Funérailles au Ghana	Director	Directing
Movie	1987	Couleur du temps. Berlin, Août 1945	Director	Directing