Jean Rouch

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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: Directing

Born: Paris, France, 1917-05-31

Died: 2004-02-18

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1955	The Mad Masters	Narrator	62
2	1959	Les Fils de l'eau		0
3	1961	Chronicle of a Summer	Self	72
4	1962	The Doll	Officer (uncredited)	50
5	1963	The Lovely Month of May	Self (uncredited)	80
6	1964	La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même	Self	60
7	1966	World Without a Game	Himself	0
8	1967	Civilisation: L'homme et les images		0
9	1977	Ispahan: A Persian Letter (The Chah Mosque at Ispahan)	Lui-même	80
10	1977	Samba the Great	Narrator	50
11	1978	Cinématon	N°1256	43
12	1980	Ciné-mafia		0
13	1983	Ciné-Portrait of Raymond Depardon	himself	0
14	1991	Jean Rouch: First Film 1947-1991	Himself	0
15	1992	An Egg with No Shell		10
16	1992	Letter to Jean Rouch	Himself	60
17	1992	Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave	Self	33
18	1994	Germaine chez elle	himself	0
19	1995	Rouch in Reverse	himself	0
20	1995	Son of Gascogne	Self	48
21	1997	A Friendly Handshake		0
22	1998	Ciguri – Tarahumaras 98 - La Danse Du Peyotl	Narrator	0
23	1998	Pierre Fatumbi Verger: Messenger Between Two Worlds	Self	0
24	1999	Ciguri - Tarahumaras 99 - Le dernier chaman	narrador	0
25	1999	Cinéma, de notre temps: Mosso, mosso (Jean Rouch comme si...)	Himself	60
26	2000	Nouvelle Vague : El cine sin dogmas	Self	0
27	2002	Mon père c'est un lion - Jean Rouch pour mémoire	Self	0
28	2003	Encountering Jean Rouch		0
29	2010	The Dreamed Films	Self	73
30		Rouch's Gang	Self	0
31	2004	Jean Rouch, des mensonges plus vrais que la réalité	Lui-même	0
32	2004	Portrait de Jean Rouch	Self	0
33	2010	Sodankylä Forever	Self	0
34	2011	Jean Epstein, Young Oceans of Cinema	Self (archive footage)	0
35	2012	Maya Deren, Take Zero	Himself	50
36	2013	My Conversations on Film	Himself	32
37		Work(ing Together) in Process	Self, the filmmaker before the filmmakers (in 240p)	0

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