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Jean Rouch. “I don’t think there’s any border between science and art. All the fiction films I have made were always on the same subject,—a discovery of the “Other,” an exploration of difference.”.
Jean Rouch was a universally-acclaimed filmmaker, anthropologist, civil engineer, explorer, and storyteller. His sudden death in February 2004 has brought an outpouring of gratitude and memories from friends, colleagues, students and audiences around the world.
“For Rouch the cinema is no window on the world, it is a door through which he plunges.”-James Blue, Film Comment Much of the extraordinary life work of the French filmmaker and anthropologist Jean Rouch (1917–2004) focused on Africa, where for over sixty years he made ethnographic films in a radical style that continued to evolve.
Feb 18, 2004 · 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 ...
Few films can claim as much influence on the course of cinema history as Chronicle of a Summer. The fascinating result of a collaboration between filmmaker-anthropologist Jean Rouch and sociologist Edgar Morin, this vanguard work of what Morin termed cinéma- vérité is a brilliantly conceived and realized sociopolitical diagnosis of the early sixties in France.
Along with Fieschi, we believe what Rouch set in motion was, first and foremost, a cinema of destabilisation and disruption (1978, 255). Indeed, it was precisely the disruptive power of film that drew Rouch towards the cinema in the first place. Though he engaged with the technologies of film as a social scientist, he saw the medium as much ...
Apr 18, 2018 · It was a long time coming, as Rouch would have celebrated his 100th birthday on May 31, 2017.Whether you are a Rouch aficionado or among the uninitiated, I recommend that you begin your viewing experience with Jean Rouch, The Adventurous Filmmaker, the 55-minute film on disc four, made in 2017 by French filmmaker Laurent Védrine.
