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 his early twenties, many of his films blur the line between fiction and documentary, creating a new style of ethnofiction. He was also hailed by the French New Wave as one of theirs. His seminal film Me a Black (Moi, un noir) pioneered the technique of jump cut popularized by Jean-Luc Godard. Godard said of Rouch in the Cahiers du Cinéma (Notebooks on Cinema) n°94 April 1959, "In charge of research for the Musée de l'Homme (French, "Museum of Man") Is there a better definition for a filmmaker?" Along his career, Rouch was no stranger to controversy.
| 2012 | Безумные подражатели - Property Builder |
| 2002 | Le Rêve plus fort que la mort - Director |
| 2002 | Le Rêve plus fort que la mort - Writer |
| 1997 | Moi fatigué debout, moi couché - Cinematography |
| 1997 | Moi fatigué debout, moi couché - Director |
| 1997 | En une poignée de mains amies - Director |
| 1997 | Faire-part : musée Henri Langlois - Director |
| 1996 | Germaine et ses copains - Director |
| 1994 | Germaine chez elle - Director |
| 1994 | Germaine chez elle - Writer |
| 1993 | Madame l'eau - Director |
| 1992 | Damoure parle du Sida - Director |
| 1990 | Brise-glace - Director |
| 1990 | Brise-glace - Director of Photography |
| 1990 | Brise-glace - Editor |
| 1990 | Brise-glace - Writer |
| 1990 | Liberté, égalité, fraternité, et puis après... - Director |
| 1989 | Boulevards d'Afrique - Director |
| 1987 | Brise-glace : Bateau givre - Director |
| 1987 | Brise-glace : Bateau givre - Director of Photography |
| 1987 | Brise-glace : Bateau givre - Editor |
| 1987 | Brise-glace : Bateau givre - Writer |
| 1987 | Couleur du temps. Berlin, Août 1945 - Director |
| 1987 | Cousin, cousine - Director |
| 1986 | Enigma - Director |
| 1986 | Folie ordinaire d'une fille de Cham - Director |
| 1984 | Dionysos - Director |
| 1983 | Ciné-portrait de Raymond Depardon - Director |
| 1983 | Ciné-portrait de Raymond Depardon - Director of Photography |
| 1981 | Sigui synthèse, l'invention de la parole et de la mort - Director |
| 1980 | Ciné-mafia - Cinematography |
| 1980 | Ciné-mafia - Director |
| 1979 | Funerailles A Bongo: Le Vieux Anai - Director |
| 1978 | Margaret Mead: A Portrait By a Friend - Director |
| 1977 | Makwayela - Director |
| 1977 | Ispahan : lettre persane - Director |
| 1977 | Hommage à Marcel Mauss. Germaine Dieterlen - Director |
| 1977 | Le griot Badye - Director |
| 1976 | Babatu, les trois conseils - Director |
| 1976 | Babatu, les trois conseils - Director of Photography |
| 1975 | Zomo et ses frères - Director |
| 1974 | Cocorico monsieur Poulet - Director |
| 1974 | Le Dama d'Ambara: Enchanter La Mort - Director |
| 1974 | Pam Kuso Kar (Briser les poteries de Pam) - Director |
| 1974 | Cocorico monsieur Poulet - Director of Photography |
| 1974 | Cocorico monsieur Poulet - Writer |
| 1974 | Le Dama d'Ambara: Enchanter La Mort - Writer |
| 1973 | Sigui 1973: l'Auvent de la Circoncision - Director |
| 1973 | L'An 01 - Co-Director |
| 1973 | Funérailles de Femmes à Bongo - Director |
| 1973 | L'enterrement du Hogon - Director |
| 1973 | Le Foot-Girafe ou "l'Alternative" - Director |
| 1973 | VW-Voyou - Director |
| 1973 | Yenendi de Boukoki - Director |
| 1972 | Sigui 1972: Les Pagnes de Yamé - Director |
| 1972 | Horendi - Director |
| 1972 | Un lion nommé l'Américain - Director |
| 1971 | Sigui 1971: La Dune d'Idyeli - Director |
| 1971 | Tourou et Bitti: Les tambours d'avant - Cinematography |
| 1971 | Tourou et Bitti: Les tambours d'avant - Director |
| 1971 | Tourou et Bitti: Les tambours d'avant - Writer |
| 1970 | Sigui 1970: Les Clameurs d'Amani - Director |
| 1970 | Petit à petit - Director |
| 1970 | Petit à petit - Director of Photography |
| 1970 | Petit à petit - Writer |
| 1970 | Architectes Ayorou - Director |
| 1970 | Mya - la mère - Director |
| 1969 | Sigui 1969 - la caverne de Bongo - Director |
| 1968 | Sigui 1968: Les Danseurs de Tyogou - Director |
| 1968 | Pierres Chantantes d'Ayorou - Director |
| 1968 | Yenendi de Ganghel, le village foudroyé - Director |
| 1967 | Sigui 1967: L'enclume de Yougo - Director |
| 1967 | Jaguar - Director |
| 1967 | Jaguar - Director of Photography |
| 1967 | Daouda Sorko - Director |
| 1966 | La Chasse au lion à l'arc - Director |
| 1966 | La Chasse au lion à l'arc - Director of Photography |
| 1966 | Batteries Dogon, éléments pour une étude des rythmes - Director |
| 1966 | La Goumbé des jeunes noceurs - Director |
| 1966 | La Goumbé des jeunes noceurs - Director of Photography |
| 1966 | La Goumbé des jeunes noceurs - Writer |
| 1965 | Gare du Nord - Director |
| 1965 | Paris vu par… - Director |
| 1965 | Gare du Nord - Screenplay |
| 1965 | Paris vu par… - Writer |
| 1964 | Les Veuves de quinze ans - Director |
| 1964 | La fleur de l'âge, ou Les adolescentes - Director |
| 1964 | L'Afrique et la recherche scientifique - Director |
| 1963 | Le palmier à l'huile - Director |
| 1963 | Les cocotiers - Director |
| 1963 | Monsieur Albert, prophète - Director |
| 1963 | Rose et Landry - Director |
| 1962 | Le Hampi - Le ciel est posé sur la terre - Director |
| 1962 | La Punition - Director |
| 1962 | La Punition - Screenplay |
| 1962 | Abidjan, port de pêche - Director |
| 1962 | Fêtes du Niger. Décembre 1961. Fêtes commémoratives de l'indépendance du Niger - Director |
| 1962 | Le mil - Director |
| 1962 | Les pêcheurs du Niger - Director |
| 1962 | Urbanisme africain - Director |
| 1961 | Bir Yaz Güncesi - Director |
| 1961 | La Pyramide humaine - Cinematography |
| 1961 | La Pyramide humaine - Director |
| 1961 | La Pyramide humaine - Writer |
| 1960 | Funérailles au Ghana - Director |
| 1959 | Les Fils de l'eau - Director |
| 1959 | Moi, un noir - Director |
| 1959 | Moi, un noir - Producer |
| 1959 | Moi, un noir - Writer |
| 1958 | Moro Naba - Director |
| 1958 | La royale goumbé - Director |
| 1958 | Une sortie de novices de Sakpata - Director |
| 1957 | Baby Ghana - Director |
| 1955 | Les Maîtres fous - Cinematography |
| 1955 | Les Maîtres fous - Director |
| 1953 | Mammy Water - Cinematography |
| 1953 | Mammy Water - Director |
| 1953 | Mammy Water - Producer |
| 1953 | Mammy Water - Writer |
| 1951 | Yenendi: les hommes qui font la pluie - Director |
| 1951 | Cimetières dans la falaise - Director |
| 1951 | Les gens du mil - Director |
| 1950 | Bataille sur le Grand Fleuve - Director |
| 1949 | La circoncision - Cinematography |
| 1949 | La circoncision - Director |
| 1949 | La circoncision - Producer |
| 1948 | Initiation à la danse des possédés - Director |
| 1948 | Les magiciens de Wanzerbé - Director |
| 1948 | Hombroï - Director |
| 1947 | Au pays des mages noirs - Director |
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