Personal Info

Known For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

May 30, 1917 (107 years old)

Place of Birth

Paris, France

Jean Rouch

Biography

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

Ispahan: A Persian Letter (The Chah Mosque at Ispahan)

Mon père c'est un lion - Jean Rouch pour mémoire

Ciguri – Tarahumaras 98 - La Danse Du Peyotl

Cinéma, de notre temps: Mosso, mosso (Jean Rouch comme si...)

Pierre Fatumbi Verger: Messenger Between Two Worlds

Jean Rouch, des mensonges plus vrais que la réalité

Ciguri - Tarahumaras 99 - Le dernier chaman

The Ordinary Madness of a Daughter of Ham

Dogon Drums, Elements of a Study in Rhythm

Niger Festivals: December 1961 - Niger Independence Days

Initiation into the Dance of the Possessed

Yenendi de Ganghel (Rain Dance at Ganghel)

Hommage à Marcel Mauss. Germaine Dieterlen