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Jean Rouch
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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…
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Filmography
Movies
Outlaw
as Self
L’Enigma di Jean Rouch a Torino - Cronaca di un film raté
My Conversations on Film
as Himself
Freddy Buache, le cinéma
as Self (archive footage)
Maya Deren, Take Zero
as Himself
Jean Epstein, Young Oceans of Cinema
as Self (archive footage)
Sodankylä Forever
as Self
The Dreamed Films
as Self
Jean Rouch, des mensonges plus vrais que la réalité
as Lui-même
Portrait de Jean Rouch
as Self