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Jun 5, 2024 · The video text is adapted from the second chapter of The Ethnographic Optic, and accompanied by clips from The Human Pyramid; The Mad Masters ( Les maîtres fous); Me, a Black [person] ( Moi, un Noir); and Little by Little ( Petit à Petit). Follow her on Twitter @LaureAstourian!
Jun 20, 2024 · Ideas of reflectivity and participant observation are explored most notably in the film “Chronique D’Un Été” by Jean Rouch. In this groundbreaking documentary, we see subjects speaking to themselves, to each other, directly to the director, and all of them ultimately grappling with the images of themselves on screen.
Jun 22, 2024 · The phrase cinéma vérité was invented by co-director Jean Rouch and the film's publicist, and its simple meaning – "truthful cinema" is the most accurate translation – promises an awful lot.
Jun 5, 2024 · This month, Laure Astourian, author of The Ethnographic Optic, Jean Rouch, Chris Marker, Alain Resnais, and the Turn Inward in 1960s French Cinema, (Indiana University Press) and Associate Professor in Modern Languages at Bentley University, discusses Jean Rouch’s 1961 Ivorian docufiction film The Human Pyramid (French: La Pyramide Humaine ...
Jun 19, 2024 · Part III–Women’s TransAfrican Cinematic Practice and Activism: Mapping the Trajectory of an African Women’s Cinematic Consciousness: Mariama Hima: Reflections on Double Colonization as an African Woman Filmmaker. Beti Ellerson. Black Camera. Indiana University Press.
Jun 12, 2024 · Jean Rouch is an example of one of these ethnographic filmmakers, although one whose films became critical of colonial powers. (More information on Rouch can be found here.)
3 days ago · One of the most influential figures in documentary and ethnographic filmmaking, Jean Rouch has made more than one hundred films in West Africa and France. In such acclaimed works as Jaguar, The Lion Hunters, Cocorico, and Monsieur Poulet, Rouch has explored racism, colonialism, African modernity, religious ritual, and music.
Jun 4, 2024 · Jean Rouch: ethnographer and filmmaker, one of the outstanding personalities of post-war international cinema, inventor of direct cinema, and, according to Jean-Luc Godard, the true animator of the Nouvelle Vague.
Jun 22, 2024 · Fictionalizing Anthropology Encounters and Fabulations at the Edges of the Human. African Video Movies and Gobal Desires. A Ghanaian History.
Jun 10, 2024 · J’ai rencontré pour la première fois Jean Rouch, en décembre 1995. Cette première rencontre a eu lieu dans le cadre d’une interview. Je venais de rencontrer un des monuments du cinéma français, l’un des derniers dinosaures du cinéma direct. Fascinant que cet homme à la mémoire d’éléphant.
