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Aug 17, 2017 · Jean Rouch was a born-explorer. The son of a meteorologist, oceanographer and writer, he grew up in a family of scientists, artists and adventurers. Although used to travelling from an early age, he was first attracted to the hard sciences and joined the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, where he graduated as a civil engineer in 1941.
Jean Rouch and His Camera in the Heart of Africa. More Info. By Philo Bregstein In cooperation with Dutch Television Color, 74 minutes. Jean Rouch and His Camera in the Heart of Africa provides an in-depth look at the film work of Jean Rouch and his friends and collaborators from Niger, Damouré Zika and Lam Abrahima Dia.
Mar 13, 2002 · Jean-André Fieschi, “Slippages of Fiction”, The camera and man: Anthropology-reality-cinema: the films of Jean Rouch, ed. by Mick Eaton, British Film Institute, London, 1979, p. 73 ; Jean Rouch, The Human Pyramid; André Bazin, What Is Cinema, 2 vols, essays selected and translated by Hugh Gray, (Berkeley: University of California, 1967), p.16
Nov 7, 2013 · Jean Rouch (1917-2004) is considered to be the greatest ethnographic filmmaker in the world. His films, which focus primarily on the Songhay of the Upper Niger in Africa, have fundamentally ...
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, was characterized by the idea of shared ...
JEAN ROUCH Jean Rouch (1917-2004) began as a civil engineer interested in rituals he observed in colonial Niger; nearly 120 films later, he would be an avatar of the Nouvelle Vague, one of the inventors of cinéma vérité, of visual anthropology, of “ethno-fiction,” and of the Nigerien film industry itself.
Nov 23, 2017 · By J. Hoberman. Nov. 23, 2017. The four-disc box set “Eight Films by Jean Rouch” released by Icarus Films in time for the Rouch centennial currently celebrated by three Paris cultural ...
