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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.
Chronicle of a Summer
1961 · Movie
The Lovely Month of May
1963 · Movie
Cinématon
1978 · Movie
The Doll
1962 · Movie
My Conversations on Film
2013 · Movie
La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même
1964 · Movie
Son of Gascogne
1995 · Movie
Freddy Buache, le cinéma
2012 · Movie
World Without a Game
1966 · Movie
Pierre Fatumbi Verger: Messenger Between Two Worlds
1998 · Movie
The Dreamed Films
2010 · Movie
The Mad Masters
1955 · Movie
Outlaw
2025 · Movie
Portrait de Jean Rouch
2004 · Movie
Jean Epstein, Young Oceans of Cinema
2011 · Movie
Nouvelle Vague : El cine sin dogmas
2000 · Movie
Cinéma, de notre temps: Mosso, mosso (Jean Rouch comme si...)
1999 · Movie
Ispahan: A Persian Letter (The Chah Mosque at Ispahan)
1977 · Movie
Letter to Jean Rouch
1992 · Movie
Rouch's Gang
· Movie
Ciguri – Tarahumaras 98 - La Danse Du Peyotl
1998 · Movie
Ciné-Portrait of Raymond Depardon
1983 · Movie
Germaine chez elle
1994 · Movie
A Friendly Handshake
1997 · Movie
Jean Rouch, des mensonges plus vrais que la réalité
2004 · Movie
Encountering Jean Rouch
2003 · Movie
The Sons of the Water
1959 · Movie
Work(ing Together) in Process
· Movie
Jean Rouch: First Film 1947-1991
1991 · Movie
Samba the Great
1977 · Movie
An Egg with No Shell
1992 · Movie
Ciguri - Tarahumaras 99 - Le dernier chaman
1999 · Movie
L’Enigma di Jean Rouch a Torino - Cronaca di un film raté
2017 · Movie
