
Born
May 31, 1917
Died
February 18, 2004
Place of Birth
Paris, France
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…

Outlaw
2025

L’Enigma di Jean Rouch a Torino - Cronaca di un film raté
2017

My Conversations on Film
2013

Freddy Buache, le cinéma
2012
Maya Deren, Take Zero
2012

Jean Epstein, Young Oceans of Cinema
2011

Sodankylä Forever
2010

The Dreamed Films
2010

Portrait de Jean Rouch
2004

Jean Rouch, des mensonges plus vrais que la réalité
2004

Encountering Jean Rouch
2003
Mon père c'est un lion - Jean Rouch pour mémoire
2002

Nouvelle Vague : El cine sin dogmas
2000

Cinéma, de notre temps: Mosso, mosso (Jean Rouch comme si...)
1999

Ciguri - Tarahumaras 99 - Le dernier chaman
1999

Pierre Fatumbi Verger: Messenger Between Two Worlds
1998

Ciguri – Tarahumaras 98 - La Danse Du Peyotl
1998

A Friendly Handshake
1997

Son of Gascogne
1995
Rouch in Reverse
1995

Germaine chez elle
1994
Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave
1992

An Egg with No Shell
1992

Letter to Jean Rouch
1992

Jean Rouch: First Film 1947-1991
1991

Ciné-Portrait of Raymond Depardon
1983
Ciné-mafia
1980

Cinématon
1978

Samba the Great
1977

Ispahan: A Persian Letter (The Chah Mosque at Ispahan)
1977
Civilisation: L'homme et les images
1967

World Without a Game
1966

La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même
1964

The Lovely Month of May
1963

The Doll
1962

Chronicle of a Summer
1961

The Sons of the Water
1959

The Mad Masters
1955

Rouch's Gang

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