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Jean Rouch
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31 May 1917
† 18 Feb 2004
Paris, France
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 his early twenties, many of his films blur the line between fiction and documentary, creating a new...
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Jean Rouch's Movies
72%
Chronicle of a Summer
20 Oct 1961
63%
The Mad Masters
24 Aug 1955
80%
The Lovely Month of May
03 May 1963
43%
Son of Gascogne
18 Feb 1995
73%
The Dreamed Films
18 Mar 2010
32%
My Conversations on Film
13 Oct 2013
43%
Cinématon
20 Dec 1978
50%
The Doll
07 Nov 1962
50%
Samba the Great
26 Mar 1977
33%
Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave
18 Jun 1992
10%
An Egg with No Shell
01 Jan 1992
60%
Letter to Jean Rouch
01 Jan 1992
80%
Ispahan: A Persian Letter (The Chah Mosque at Ispahan)
01 Mar 1977
60%
La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même
19 May 1964
50%
Maya Deren, Take Zero
30 Jan 2012
60%
Cinéma, de notre temps: Mosso, mosso (Jean Rouch comme si...)
11 Aug 1999
0%
Encountering Jean Rouch
01 Jan 2003
0%
A Friendly Handshake
01 Jan 1997
0%
The Sons of the Water
10 Dec 1959
0%
World Without a Game
29 May 1966