Jean Rouch
Directing
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.
TV Shows(1)
Movies(40)
Outlaw
Self
2025
L’Enigma di Jean Rouch a Torino - Cronaca di un film raté
2017
My Conversations on Film
Himself
2013
Freddy Buache, le cinéma
Self (archive footage)
2012
Maya Deren, Take Zero
Himself
2012
Jean Epstein, Young Oceans of Cinema
Self (archive footage)
2011
Sodankylä Forever
Self
2010
The Dreamed Films
Self
2010
Portrait de Jean Rouch
Self
2004
Jean Rouch, des mensonges plus vrais que la réalité
Lui-même
2004
Encountering Jean Rouch
2003
Mon père c'est un lion - Jean Rouch pour mémoire
Self
2002
Nouvelle Vague : El cine sin dogmas
Self
2000
Cinéma, de notre temps: Mosso, mosso (Jean Rouch comme si...)
Himself
1999
Ciguri - Tarahumaras 99 - Le dernier chaman
narrador
1999
Pierre Fatumbi Verger: Messenger Between Two Worlds
Self
1998
Ciguri – Tarahumaras 98 - La Danse Du Peyotl
Narrator
1998
A Friendly Handshake
1997
Son of Gascogne
Self
1995
Rouch in Reverse
himself
1995
Germaine chez elle
himself
1994
Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave
Self
1992
An Egg with No Shell
1992
Letter to Jean Rouch
Self
1992
Jean Rouch: First Film 1947-1991
Himself
1991
Ciné-Portrait of Raymond Depardon
himself
1983
Ciné-mafia
1980
Cinématon
N°1256
1978
Samba the Great
Narrator
1977
Ispahan: A Persian Letter (The Chah Mosque at Ispahan)
Lui-même
1977
Civilisation: L'homme et les images
Self
1967
World Without a Game
Himself
1966
La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même
Self
1964
The Lovely Month of May
Self (uncredited)
1963
The Doll
Officer (uncredited)
1962
Chronicle of a Summer
Self
1961
The Sons of the Water
1959
The Mad Masters
Narrator
1955
Rouch's Gang
Self
Work(ing Together) in Process
Self, the filmmaker before the filmmakers (in 240p)