Jean Rouch
Directing
1917-05-31 · 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 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.
Filmography(40)
movieOutlaw
as Self · 2025 · 0.0
movieL’Enigma di Jean Rouch a Torino - Cronaca di un film raté
as · 2017 · 0.0
movieMy Conversations on Film
as Himself · 2013 · 3.2
movieFreddy Buache, le cinéma
as Self (archive footage) · 2012 · 0.0
movieMaya Deren, Take Zero
as Himself · 2012 · 5.0
movieJean Epstein, Young Oceans of Cinema
as Self (archive footage) · 2011 · 0.0
movieThe Dreamed Films
as Self · 2010 · 7.3
moviePortrait de Jean Rouch
as Self · 2004 · 0.0
movieJean Rouch, des mensonges plus vrais que la réalité
as Lui-même · 2004 · 0.0
movieEncountering Jean Rouch
as · 2003 · 0.0
movieMon père c'est un lion - Jean Rouch pour mémoire
as Self · 2002 · 10.0
movieNouvelle Vague : El cine sin dogmas
as Self · 2000 · 8.0
movieCinéma, de notre temps: Mosso, mosso (Jean Rouch comme si...)
as Himself · 1999 · 6.0
movieCiguri - Tarahumaras 99 - Le dernier chaman
as narrador · 1999 · 0.0
moviePierre Fatumbi Verger: Messenger Between Two Worlds
as Self · 1998 · 9.0
movieCiguri – Tarahumaras 98 - La Danse Du Peyotl
as Narrator · 1998 · 0.0
movieA Friendly Handshake
as · 1997 · 0.0
movieSon of Gascogne
as Self · 1995 · 5.1
movieRouch in Reverse
as himself · 1995 · 7.0
movieGermaine chez elle
as himself · 1994 · 0.0
movieCinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave
as Self · 1992 · 3.3
movieAn Egg with No Shell
as · 1992 · 1.0
movieLetter to Jean Rouch
as Self · 1992 · 6.0
movieJean Rouch: First Film 1947-1991
as Himself · 1991 · 0.0