Jean Rouch
Regisseur, Schrijver, Acteur, Producer, Redacteur
31 mei 1917 — 18 februari 2004 (86 years)
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.
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
Cinematografie
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| 2022 | The French New Wave: A Cinema Revolution · as Self |
| 2013 | My Conversations on Film · as Himself |
| 2012 | Journal de France · as Self |
| 2012 | Maya Deren, Take 0 · as Himself |
| 2011 | Jean Epstein, Young Oceans of Cinema · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2010 | Sodankylä Forever · as Self |
| 2010 | Dreaming Film · as Self |
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| 1995 | Metropolis · as Self |
| 1995 | The Son of Gascogne · as Self |
| 1989 | Cinéma, de notre temps · as Self |
| 1964 | Filmmakers of our time · as Self |
| 1963 | Le joli mai · as Self (uncredited) |
| 1961 | Chronicle of a Summer · as Self |
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| 1965 | Gare du Nord · as Screenplay |
| 1962 | The Punishment · as Screenplay |
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| 1999 | Cinéma Vérité: Defining the Moment · as Cast |
| 1988 | Brise-glace · as Cast |
| 1984 | Cinématon · as N°1256 |
| 1977 | Samba the Great · as Narrator |
| 1962 | La poupée · as Officer (uncredited) |
| 1958 | Me, a Black · as Narrator |
| 1955 | The Mad Masters · as Narrator |
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| 1988 | Brise-glace · as Director Of Photography |
| 1974 | Cock-a-Doodle-Doo! Mr. Chicken · as Director Of Photography |
| 1973 | The Year 01 · as Co-Director |
| 1970 | Little by Little · as Director Of Photography |
| 1967 | Jaguar · as Director Of Photography |
| 1966 | Hunting the Lion with Bow and Arrow · as Director Of Photography |
| 1966 | La goumbe des jeunes noceurs · as Director Of Photography |
| 1961 | The Human Pyramid · as Cinematographer |
| 1958 | Me, a Black · as Cinematographer |
| 1955 | The Mad Masters · as Cinematographer |
| 1953 | Mammy Water · as Cinematographer |
| 1950 | Hippopotamus Hunt · as Cinematographer |