Jean Rouch
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 (40 titles)
MovieOutlaw
Self · 2025
MovieL’Enigma di Jean Rouch a Torino - Cronaca di un film raté
2017
3.2MovieMy Conversations on Film
Himself · 2013
MovieFreddy Buache, le cinéma
Self (archive footage) · 2012
Maya Deren, Take Zero
Himself · 2012
MovieJean Epstein, Young Oceans of Cinema
Self (archive footage) · 2011
7.3MovieThe Dreamed Films
Self · 2010
MoviePortrait de Jean Rouch
Self · 2004
MovieJean Rouch, des mensonges plus vrais que la réalité
Lui-même · 2004
MovieEncountering Jean Rouch
2003
Mon père c'est un lion - Jean Rouch pour mémoire
Self · 2002
8.0MovieNouvelle Vague : El cine sin dogmas
Self · 2000
6.0MovieCinéma, de notre temps: Mosso, mosso (Jean Rouch comme si...)
Himself · 1999
MovieCiguri - Tarahumaras 99 - Le dernier chaman
narrador · 1999
9.0MoviePierre Fatumbi Verger: Messenger Between Two Worlds
Self · 1998
MovieCiguri – Tarahumaras 98 - La Danse Du Peyotl
Narrator · 1998
MovieA Friendly Handshake
1997
5.1MovieSon of Gascogne
Self · 1995
Rouch in Reverse
himself · 1995
MovieGermaine chez elle
himself · 1994
Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave
Self · 1992
1.0MovieAn Egg with No Shell
1992
6.0MovieLetter to Jean Rouch
Self · 1992
MovieJean Rouch: First Film 1947-1991
Himself · 1991
9.0MovieCiné-Portrait of Raymond Depardon
himself · 1983
Ciné-mafia
1980
4.9MovieCinématon
N°1256 · 1978
5.5MovieSamba the Great
Narrator · 1977
9.0MovieIspahan: A Persian Letter (The Chah Mosque at Ispahan)
Lui-même · 1977
Samedi soir
Self · 1971