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Jean Rouch (French:; 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 .
- French
- Jean Rouch, 31 May 1917, Paris, France
- 1947–2002
- 18 February 2004 (aged 86), Birni-N'Konni, Niger
Jean Rouch (1917-2004) Jean Rouch. Jean Rouch was born on 31 May 1917 in Paris, France. He was a director and cinematographer, known for Moi, un noir (1958), Madame L'Eau (1993) and Six in Paris (1965). He was married to Joselyne Lamothe. He died on 18 February 2004 in Birni N'Konni, Niger.
- Director, Cinematographer, Writer
- May 31, 1917
- Jean Rouch
- February 18, 2004
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’s prolific film career began in French West Africa, where he worked as a civil engineer during World War II, supervising road and bridge construction. Previously, in Paris, he had attended the lectures of Marcel Mauss and Marcel Griaule. In 1946, traveling down the Niger River, Rouch shot his first film with a 16mm Bell and Howell ...
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 ...
- French
- Anatole Dauman
- Pierre Barbaud
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 ...
Jan 25, 2024 · Jean Rouch was an inspiration for the French New Wave, and a revolutionary force in ethnography and the study of Africa. Beginning in 1955 with his most controversial film THE MAD MASTERS, through 1969’s darkly comic LITTLE BY LITTLE, these films represent the most sustained flourishing of Rouch’s practice of “shared anthropology,” a process of collaboration with his subjects.
