Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Known Credits
35
Gender
Male
Birthday
May 31, 1917 ( 87 years old )
Place of Birth
Paris, France
Also Known As
장 루슈
Jean Rouch
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.
Known For
Samba le grand
1977-03-26La Poupée
1962-11-07Le Fils de Gascogne
1995-02-18Ispahan : lettre persane
1977-03-01Encountering Jean Rouch
2003-01-01Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave
1992-06-18En une poignée de mains amies
1997-01-01Les films rêvés
2010-03-18Les Fils de l'eau
1959-12-10Мир без игры
1966-05-29