Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Birthdate
1917-05-31
Day of Death
2004-02-18
Place of Birth
Paris, France
Jean Rouch
Biography
Jean Rouch (French: [ÊuÊ]; 31 May 1917, Paris â 18 February 2004, Niger) was a French filmmaker and anthropologist. He is considered to be one of the founders of cinĂ©ma-vĂ©ritĂ© 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 CinĂ©ma (Notebooks on Cinema) n°94 April 1959, "In charge of research for the MusĂ©e de l'Homme (French, "Museum of Man") Is there a better definition for a filmmaker?" Along his career, Rouch was no stranger to controversy.
Filmography (38)
Outlaw
2025
LâEnigma di Jean Rouch a Torino - Cronaca di un film ratĂ©
2017
My Conversations on Film
2013
Freddy Buache, le cinéma
2012Maya Deren, Take Zero
2012
Jean Epstein, Young Oceans of Cinema
2011
SodankylÀ Forever
2010
The Dreamed Films
2010
Portrait de Jean Rouch
2004
Jean Rouch, des mensonges plus vrais que la réalité
2004
Encountering Jean Rouch
2003Mon pÚre c'est un lion - Jean Rouch pour mémoire
2002
Nouvelle Vague : El cine sin dogmas
2000
Cinéma, de notre temps: Mosso, mosso (Jean Rouch comme si...)
1999
