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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.
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MAMMY WATER(1955, 19 min) An exploration of the spiritual traditions of a fishing village on the Gulf of Guinea. When the catch is bad, villagers must honor the water spirits, or Mammy Water, with a ceremony. THE MAD MASTERS(1956, 29 min) A possession ritual of the Hauka religious sect using the delirious techniques of "cine-trance" also doubles as...
THE HUMAN PYRAMID(1961, 93 min) At a Lycéeon the Ivory coast, Rouch meets with white colonial French high-school students and their black African classmates (all non-actors) and persuades them to improvise a drama. "Groundbreaking metafiction." —The New Yorker THE LION HUNTERS(1965, 81 min) Documentation of the lion hunt performed by the gow hunter...
JAGUAR(1967, 93 min) Three young Songhay men from Niger journey to the Gold Coast (modern day Ghana). After filming the trip in mid-1950s, the four reunited a few years later to record the sound, remembering dialogue and making up commentary. "Exuberant in its spontaneous good humor." —Ethnographic Film LITTLE BY LITTLE(1969, 96 min) Jean Rouch’s N...
THE PUNISHMENT(1962, 64 min) An aimless young woman is sent home from school with nothing to do. Drifting through the streets of Paris, she comes across a variety of people. "Extraordinary and extraordinarily rare movie about public misogyny." —The New Yorker JEAN ROUCH, THE ADVENTUROUS FILMMAKER(2017, 55 min) A new documentary about Jean Rouch and...
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Jean Rouch ( French: [ʁuʃ]; 31 May 1917 – 18 February 2004) was a French filmmaker and anthropologist . He is considered one of the founders of cinéma vérité in France. Rouch's practice as a filmmaker, for over 60 years in Africa, was characterized by the idea of shared anthropology.
The film shows the members of a voluntary association of young people from Upper Volta who work in Abidjan, Ivory Coast - first at their work, then at a reunion that ends on a dance floor in Treichville.
