Jean Rouch
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- May 31, 1917
- Died
- February 18, 2004 (aged 86)
- Birthplace
- Paris, France
Biography
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
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Le Rêve plus fort que la mort
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I'm Tired of Standing, I Lie Down
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A Friendly Handshake
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Announcement
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Germaine et ses copains
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Germaine chez elle
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Madame l'eau
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Damouré Speaks About AIDS
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Liberté, égalité, fraternité, et puis après...
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Brise-glace
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Boulevards d'Afrique
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Cousin, cousine
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Brise-glace : Bateau givre
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Couleur du temps. Berlin, Août 1945
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The Ordinary Madness of a Daughter of Ham
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Enigma
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Ciné-Portrait de Bill Witney
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Dionysos
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Hampâté Bâ
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Ciné-Portrait of Raymond Depardon
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Sigui Synthesis: The Invention of Speech and Death
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Ciné-mafia
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Funeral at Bongo: The Death of Old Anai
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Margaret Mead: A Portrait By a Friend
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Ciné-Portrait de Stanislas Adotevi
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Ispahan: A Persian Letter (The Chah Mosque at Ispahan)
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Makwayela
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Hommage à Marcel Mauss. Germaine Dieterlen
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Badye, the Storyteller
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Babatou, Three Pieces of Advice
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Zomo et ses frères
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Cock-A-Doodle-Doo! Mr Chicken
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Pam Kuso Kar (Breaking Pam's Vases)
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The Dama of Ambara: To Enchant Death
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The Year 01
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Boukoki
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Sigui 1973: The Canopy of Circumcision
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The Burial of the Hogon
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Funeral Rites for Women in Bongo
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VW-Voyou
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Giraffe Football or “The Alternative”
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Hommage à Marcel Mauss : Taro Okamoto
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Horendi
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Sigui 1972: The Loincloths of Yamé
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Un lion nommé l'Américain
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Sigui 1971: The Dune of Idyeli
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Drums from the Past
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Little by Little
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Sigui 1970: The Clamours of Amani
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Architects of Ayorou
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Mya - la mère
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Sigui 1969: The Cave of Bongo
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Sigui 1968: The Dancers of Tyogou
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Ayorou Singing Stones
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Yenendi de Ganghel (Rain Dance at Ganghel)
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Jaguar
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Sigui 1967: L'enclume de Yougo
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Daouda Sorko
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The Lion Hunters
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Dogon Drums, Elements of a Study in Rhythm
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The Goumbé of the Young Revelers
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Six in Paris
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Gare du Nord
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The Fifteen-Year-Old Widows
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L'Afrique et la recherche scientifique
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That Tender Age
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Monsieur Albert, prophète
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Le palmier à l'huile
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Les cocotiers
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Rose et Landry
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The Punishment
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Niger Festivals: December 1961 - Niger Independence Days
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Hampi
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Abidjan, port de pêche
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Urbanisme africain
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Les pêcheurs du Niger
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Le mil
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Chronicle of a Summer
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The Human Pyramid
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Funérailles au Ghana
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The Sons of the Water
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I, a Negro
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Moro Naba
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Une sortie de novices de Sakpata
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La royale goumbé
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Baby Ghana
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The Mad Masters
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Mammy Water
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Cemeteries in the Cliff
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The Rainmakers
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Les gens du mil
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Battle on the Great River
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Circumcision
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The Magicians of Wanzerbé
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Initiation into the Dance of the Possessed
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Hombroï
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In the Land of the Black Magi
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