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Nov 10, 2017 · Those films, “Moi, un Noir” (“I, a Black Person”), from 1958, and “The Human Pyramid,” from 1961, are part of the boxed set “Eight Films by Jean Rouch” (Icarus Films); their blasts ...
Chronicle of a Summer (French original title: Chronique d'un été) is a 1961 French documentary film shot during the summer of 1960 by sociologist Edgar Morin and anthropologist and filmmaker Jean Rouch, with the technical and aesthetic collaboration of Québécois director-cameraman Michel Brault . The film is widely regarded as structurally ...
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. The Rouch classics shown here include 8 new restorations from Icarus Films. QUOTES ...
Feb 1, 2002 · Instead of remaining passive observers, the filmmakers—anthropologist Jean Rouch and sociologist Edgar Morin—put themselves at the center of their film, focusing their camera on friends, students, intellectuals, foreigners and workers living in Paris in the summer of 1960. The result was like no documentary I had ever seen before.
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Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010, 536 pages. BRIAN KARL, Center for Ethnomusicology, Columbia University. Exuberant, extemporaneous, determined, playful, and far-flung in his trajectories both as a filmmaker and as an anthropologist, Jean Rouch is one of those figures whose work can be maddeningly elusive to categorize in terms of ...
Jun 5, 2012 · In this chapter, I will examine the distinctive character of Jean Rouch's anthropological cinema. The question of vision as method and metaphor is central to this task. For Rouch, like David and Judith MacDougall (the focus of the next case study), is deeply committed to an ‘ocularcentric’ project. Vision is elevated as the noblest of the ...
