Jean Rouch
Directing
đ 1917-05-31
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.
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Self
1971
N°1256
1978
Self
2010
Self
1961
Self
1995
Self (uncredited)
1963
Self
2000
Himself
2013
Himself
1966
Self
1964
1980
Narrator
1955
Himself
2012
Self (archive footage)
2011
Officer (uncredited)
1962
Self
1992
Self
2010
Self
1998
Lui-mĂȘme
2004
himself
1983
1967
1997
1992
Himself
1991
Self
2002
Himself
1992
2003
Narrator
1998
Lui-mĂȘme
1977
himself
1994
Self, the filmmaker before the filmmakers (in 240p)
Narrator
1977
Self
Himself
1999
1959
narrador
1999
himself
1995
Self
2004
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