Jean Rouch
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.
Acting
Movie
Chronicle of a Summer
as Self
1961
Movie
The Mad Masters
as Narrator
1955
Movie
The Lovely Month of May
as Self (uncredited)
1963
Movie
Son of Gascogne
as Self
1995
Movie
Cinématon
as N°1256
1978
Movie
The Doll
as Officer (uncredited)
1962
Movie
The Dreamed Films
as Self
2010
Movie
My Conversations on Film
as Himself
2013
Movie
Samba the Great
as Narrator
1977
Movie
Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave
as Self
1992
Movie
Ispahan: A Persian Letter (The Chah Mosque at Ispahan)
as Lui-même
1977
Movie
La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même
as Self
1964
Movie
An Egg with No Shell
1992
Movie
Letter to Jean Rouch
as Self
1992
Movie
The Sons of the Water
1959
Movie
Rouch's Gang
as Self
Movie
Mon père c'est un lion - Jean Rouch pour mémoire
as Self
2002
Movie
Rouch in Reverse
as himself
1995
Movie
Nouvelle Vague : El cine sin dogmas
as Self
2000
Movie
Maya Deren, Take Zero
as Himself
2012
Movie
Cinéma, de notre temps: Mosso, mosso (Jean Rouch comme si...)
as Himself
1999
Movie
Ciné-Portrait of Raymond Depardon
as himself
1983
Movie
Pierre Fatumbi Verger: Messenger Between Two Worlds
as Self
1998
TV
Samedi soir
as Self
1971
Crew
Movie
Chronicle of a Summer
Director
1961
Movie
The Mad Masters
Director
1955
Movie
The Year 01
Co-Director
1973
Movie
I, a Negro
Director
1959
Movie
Six in Paris
Director
1965
Movie
The Human Pyramid
Director
1961
Movie
Little by Little
Director
1970
Movie
The Lion Hunters
Director
1966
Movie
Jaguar
Director
1967
Movie
Cock-A-Doodle-Doo! Mr Chicken
Director
1974
Movie
Drums from the Past
Director
1971
Movie
In the Land of the Black Magi
Director
1947