Jean Rouch
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Born 1917-05-31 · Paris, France · Died 2004-02-18
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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Outlaw
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L’Enigma di Jean Rouch a Torino - Cronaca di un film raté
My Conversations on Film
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Freddy Buache, le cinéma
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Maya Deren, Take Zero
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Jean Epstein, Young Oceans of Cinema
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The Dreamed Films
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Portrait de Jean Rouch
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Jean Rouch, des mensonges plus vrais que la réalité
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Encountering Jean Rouch
Mon père c'est un lion - Jean Rouch pour mémoire
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Nouvelle Vague : El cine sin dogmas
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Cinéma, de notre temps: Mosso, mosso (Jean Rouch comme si...)
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Ciguri - Tarahumaras 99 - Le dernier chaman
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Pierre Fatumbi Verger: Messenger Between Two Worlds
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Ciguri – Tarahumaras 98 - La Danse Du Peyotl
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A Friendly Handshake
Son of Gascogne
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Rouch in Reverse
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Germaine chez elle
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Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave
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An Egg with No Shell
Letter to Jean Rouch
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Jean Rouch: First Film 1947-1991
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Ciné-Portrait of Raymond Depardon
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Ciné-mafia
Cinématon
N°1256
Samba the Great
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Ispahan: A Persian Letter (The Chah Mosque at Ispahan)
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Samedi soir
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Mad Mimes
Property Builder
Le Rêve plus fort que la mort
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Le Rêve plus fort que la mort
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I'm Tired of Standing, I Lie Down
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I'm Tired of Standing, I Lie Down
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A Friendly Handshake
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Announcement
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Germaine et ses copains
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Germaine chez elle
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Germaine chez elle
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Madame l'eau
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Damouré Speaks About AIDS
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Brise-glace
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Brise-glace
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Brise-glace
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Liberté, égalité, fraternité, et puis après...
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Boulevards d'Afrique
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Brise-glace : Bateau givre
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Brise-glace : Bateau givre
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