Jean Rouch
Directing
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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movieA Friendly Handshake
1997
Director
movieGermaine et ses copains
1996
Director
movieGermaine chez elle
1994
Director
movieBrise-glace
1990
Director
movieCousin, cousine
1987
Director
movieEnigma
1986
Director
Dionysos
1984
Director
Ciné-mafia
1980
Director
movieMakwayela
1977
Director
movieBadye, the Storyteller
1977
Director
movieZomo et ses frères
1975
Director
movieThe Year 01
1973
Co-Director
movieBoukoki
1973
Director
movieThe Burial of the Hogon
1973
Director
movieVW-Voyou
1973
Director
movieHorendi
1972
Director
movieDrums from the Past
1971
Director
movieLittle by Little
1970
Director
movieArchitects of Ayorou
1970
Director
movieMya - la mère
1970
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movieAyorou Singing Stones
1968
Director
movieJaguar
1967
Director
movieDaouda Sorko
1967
Director
movieThe Lion Hunters
1966
Director
movieSix in Paris
1965
Director
movieGare du Nord
1965
Director
movieThat Tender Age
1964
Director
movieHampi
1962
Director
movieThe Punishment
1962
Director
Le mil
1962
Director
movieChronicle of a Summer
1961
Director
movieThe Human Pyramid
1961
Director
movieFunérailles au Ghana
1960
Director
movieThe Sons of the Water
1959
Director
movieI, a Negro
1959
Director
movieMoro Naba
1958
Director
movieBaby Ghana
1957
Director
movieThe Mad Masters
1955
Director
movieMammy Water
1953
Director
movieThe Rainmakers
1951
Director
movieCemeteries in the Cliff
1951
Director
movieCircumcision
1949
Director
Hombroï
1948
Director
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movieOutlaw
2025
Self
movieFreddy Buache, le cinéma
2012
Self (archive footage)
movieJean Epstein, Young Oceans of Cinema
2011
Self (archive footage)
movieGermaine chez elle
1994
himself
movieCinématon
1978
N°1256
movieSamba the Great
1977
Narrator
movieThe Lovely Month of May
1963
Self (uncredited)
movieThe Doll
1962
Officer (uncredited)
movieThe Mad Masters
1955
Narrator
movieWork(ing Together) in Process
Self, the filmmaker before the filmmakers (in 240p)
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movieBrise-glace
1990
Writer
movieSix in Paris
1965
Writer
movieGare du Nord
1965
Screenplay
movieThe Punishment
1962
Screenplay
movieI, a Negro
1959
Writer
movieMammy Water
1953
Writer
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movieBrise-glace
1990
Director of Photography
Brise-glace : Bateau givre
1987
Director of Photography
movieCiné-Portrait of Raymond Depardon
1983
Director of Photography
movieBabatou, Three Pieces of Advice
1976
Director of Photography
movieCock-A-Doodle-Doo! Mr Chicken
1974
Director of Photography
movieLittle by Little
1970
Director of Photography
movieJaguar
1967
Director of Photography
movieThe Lion Hunters
1966
Director of Photography
movieThe Goumbé of the Young Revelers
1966
Director of Photography
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Ciné-mafia
1980
Cinematography
movieDrums from the Past
1971
Cinematography
movieThe Human Pyramid
1961
Cinematography
movieThe Mad Masters
1955
Cinematography
movieMammy Water
1953
Cinematography
movieBattle on the Great River
1950
Cinematography
movieCircumcision
1949
Cinematography
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Editing2
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movieMad Mimes
2012
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