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- Works
- 12
Top works
- Jean Rouch talks about his films to John Marshall and John W. Adams
- Eguéréou
- Chants du Dahomey & du Niger
- Dionysos
- Les Songhay
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Film & TV
Directing · 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…
Known for
- Outlaw — Self2025
- L’Enigma di Jean Rouch a Torino - Cronaca di un film raté2017
- My Conversations on Film — Himself2013
- Maya Deren, Take Zero — Himself2012
- Freddy Buache, le cinéma — Self (archive footage)2012
- Jean Epstein, Young Oceans of Cinema — Self (archive footage)2011
- The Dreamed Films — Self2010
- Jean Rouch, des mensonges plus vrais que la réalité — Lui-même2004
- Portrait de Jean Rouch — Self2004
- Encountering Jean Rouch2003
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- Listeners
- 4
- Total plays
- 13
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Recent publications · Crossref
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- The ERA5 global reanalysis
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1917-05-31 ) 31 May 1917, Paris , France
- Died
- 18 February 2004 (2004-02-18) (aged 86), Birni-N'Konni , Niger
- Occupations
- Filmmaker, anthropologist
- Years active
- 1947–2002
- Notable work
- Moi, un noir (I, a Black), Chronique d'un été (Chronicle of a Summer), La Chasse au lion à l'arc [ fr ] (Hunting the Lion with Bow and Arrow), Petit à petit [ fr ] (Little by Little)
- Relatives
- Geneviève Rouch (sister)
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Wikidata facts
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- Jean Rouch.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1917-05-31
- date of death
- 2004-02-18
- Commons category
- Jean Rouch
- name in native language
- Jean Rouch
- start of work period
- 1947-00-00
- end of work period
- 2003-00-00
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The French anthropologists Germaine Dieterlen (1903–1999) and Jean Rouch (1917–2004) with three of their local male informants, Sangha, Mali, 1980. Jean Rouch ( French: [ʁuʃ]; 31 May 1917 – 18 February 2004) was a French filmmaker and anthropologist.
He is considered one of the founders of cinéma vérité in France. Rouch's practice as a filmmaker, for over 60 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: ethnofiction. The French New Wave filmmakers hailed Rouch as one of their own.