Jean Rouch
Also known as Rouch
French film director and ethnologist (1917–2004)
Person · Open Library
- 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
via Open Library + Wikidata
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