Jean Rouch
1917-05-31 ( 107 years old ) in Paris, France

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.

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My Conversations on Film 2013-10-13
Maya Deren, Take Zero 2012-01-30
Jean Epstein, Young Oceans of Cinema 2011-01-01
Sodankylä Forever 2010-08-05
The Dreamed Films 2010-03-18
Portrait de Jean Rouch 2004-05-04
Jean Rouch, des mensonges plus vrais que la réalité 2004-03-05
Encountering Jean Rouch 2003-01-01
Mon père c'est un lion - Jean Rouch pour mémoire 2002-01-01
Nouvelle Vague : El cine sin dogmas 2000-04-02
Cinéma, de notre temps: Mosso, mosso (Jean Rouch comme si...) 1999-08-11
Ciguri - Tarahumaras 99 - Le dernier chaman 1999-01-01
Pierre Fatumbi Verger: Messenger Between Two Worlds 1998-12-31
Ciguri – Tarahumaras 98 - La Danse Du Peyotl 1998-01-01
A Friendly Handshake 1997-01-01
Son of Gascogne 1995-02-18
Rouch in Reverse 1995-01-01
Germaine chez elle 1994-01-01
Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave 1992-06-18
An Egg with No Shell 1992-01-01
Letter to Jean Rouch 1992-01-01
Jean Rouch: First Film 1947-1991 1991-02-26
Ciné-Portrait of Raymond Depardon 1983-01-01
Ciné-mafia 1980-07-09
Cinématon 1978-12-20
Samba the Great 1977-03-26
Ispahan: A Persian Letter (The Chah Mosque at Ispahan) 1977-03-01
Civilisation: L'homme et les images 1967-01-01
World Without a Game 1966-05-29
La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même 1964-05-19
The Lovely Month of May 1963-05-01
The Doll 1962-11-07
Chronicle of a Summer 1961-10-20
Les Fils de l'eau 1959-12-10
The Mad Masters 1955-08-24
Rouch's Gang
Work(ing Together) in Process

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