Jean Rouch

Jean Rouch

Directing
40 Movies 1 TV Shows

Born

May 31, 1917

Died

February 18, 2004

Place of Birth

Paris, France

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Biography

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 anthropology. Influenced by his discovery of surrealism in…

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