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Jean Rouch
Paris, France
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…
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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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Outlaw
Movie Self
- 2017
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2013
My Conversations on Film
Movie Himself
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2012
Freddy Buache, le cinéma
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2012
Mad Mimes
Movie Property Builder
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2012
Maya Deren, Take Zero
Movie Himself
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2011
Jean Epstein, Young Oceans of Cinema
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2010
The Dreamed Films
Movie Self
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2004
Portrait de Jean Rouch
Movie Self
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2004
Jean Rouch, des mensonges plus vrais que la réalité
Movie Lui-même
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2003
Encountering Jean Rouch
Movie
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2002
Le Rêve plus fort que la mort
Movie Director
- 2002
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2000
Nouvelle Vague : El cine sin dogmas
Movie Self
- 1999
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1999
Ciguri - Tarahumaras 99 - Le dernier chaman
Movie narrador
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- 1998
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1998
Ciguri – Tarahumaras 98 - La Danse Du Peyotl
Movie Narrator
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1997
I'm Tired of Standing, I Lie Down
Movie Director
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1997
A Friendly Handshake
Movie
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1997
Announcement
Movie Director
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1996
Germaine et ses copains
Movie Director
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1995
Son of Gascogne
Movie Self
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1995
Rouch in Reverse
Movie himself
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1994
Germaine chez elle
Movie himself
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1993
Madame l'eau
Movie Director
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1992
Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave
Movie Self
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1992
Damouré Speaks About AIDS
Movie Director
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1992
Letter to Jean Rouch
Movie Self
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1992
An Egg with No Shell
Movie
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1991
Jean Rouch: First Film 1947-1991
Movie Himself
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1990
Brise-glace
Movie Director
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1990
Liberté, égalité, fraternité, et puis après...
Movie Director
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1989
Boulevards d'Afrique
Movie Director
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1987
Brise-glace : Bateau givre
Movie Director
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1987
Cousin, cousine
Movie Director
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1987
Couleur du temps. Berlin, Août 1945
Movie Director
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1986
Enigma
Movie Director
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1986
The Ordinary Madness of a Daughter of Ham
Movie Director
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1986
Ciné-Portrait de Bill Witney
Movie Director
