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person_profile-Jean Rouch

Jean Rouch Died at age: 86

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Jean Rouch

Date of Birth:

May 31, 1917

Country of birth:

France

Died:

Feb 18, 2004

Biography of

Jean Rouch

    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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Jean Rouch

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Filmography of

Jean Rouch

Found 17 Movies in total

My Conversations on Film

Himself ( Actor )

... 2013

Jean Epstein, Young Oceans of Cinema

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2011

Sodankylä Forever

Self ( Actor )

... 2010

The Dreamed Films

Self ( Actor )

... 2010

... 1999

... 1999

... 1998

Son of Gascogne

Self ( Actor )

... 1995

Cinématon

N°1256 ( Actor )

... 1978

World Without a Game

Himself ( Actor )

... 1966

... 1964

The Lovely Month of May

Self (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1963

... 1962

Chronicle of a Summer

Self ( Actor )

Writer

... 1961

... 1959

Rouch's Gang

Self ( Actor )

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Work(ing Together) in Process

Self, the filmmaker before the filmmakers (in 240p) ( Actor )

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