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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.
As director
Le Rêve plus fort que la mort
I'm Tired of Standing, I Lie Down
A Friendly Handshake
Announcement
Germaine et ses copains
Germaine chez elle
Madame l'eau
Damouré Speaks About AIDS
Liberté, égalité, fraternité, et puis après...
Brise-glace
Boulevards d'Afrique
Cousin, cousine
Brise-glace : Bateau givre
Couleur du temps. Berlin, Août 1945
The Ordinary Madness of a Daughter of Ham
Enigma
Dionysos
Ciné-Portrait of Raymond Depardon
Sigui Synthesis: The Invention of Speech and Death
Ciné-mafia
Funeral at Bongo: The Death of Old Anai
Margaret Mead: A Portrait By a Friend
Ispahan: A Persian Letter (The Chah Mosque at Ispahan)
Makwayela
Hommage à Marcel Mauss. Germaine Dieterlen
Badye, the Storyteller
Babatou, Three Pieces of Advice
Zomo et ses frères
Cock-A-Doodle-Doo! Mr Chicken
Pam Kuso Kar (Breaking Pam's Vases)
As actor
Outlaw
L’Enigma di Jean Rouch a Torino - Cronaca di un film raté
My Conversations on Film
Maya Deren, Take Zero
Freddy Buache, le cinéma
Jean Epstein, Young Oceans of Cinema
The Dreamed Films
Jean Rouch, des mensonges plus vrais que la réalité
Portrait de Jean Rouch
Encountering Jean Rouch
Mon père c'est un lion - Jean Rouch pour mémoire
Nouvelle Vague : El cine sin dogmas
Cinéma, de notre temps: Mosso, mosso (Jean Rouch comme si...)
Ciguri - Tarahumaras 99 - Le dernier chaman
Ciguri – Tarahumaras 98 - La Danse Du Peyotl
Pierre Fatumbi Verger: Messenger Between Two Worlds
A Friendly Handshake
Son of Gascogne
Rouch in Reverse
Germaine chez elle
Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave
An Egg with No Shell
Letter to Jean Rouch
Jean Rouch: First Film 1947-1991
Ciné-Portrait of Raymond Depardon
Ciné-mafia
Cinématon
Samba the Great
Ispahan: A Persian Letter (The Chah Mosque at Ispahan)
Civilisation: L'homme et les images