Jean Rouch

Paris, verão de 1960. O antropólogo e cineasta Jean Rouch e o sociólogo e crítico de cinema Edgar Morin andam pelas ruas lotadas perguntando aos tr...

20 de out. de 1961

The film narrates a utopian abandonment, consensual and festive of the market economy and high productivity. The population decides on a number of ...

22 de fev. de 1973

Em 1954, o cineasta etnográfico Jean Rouch foi convidado por um pequeno grupo de haukas da cidade de Acra, na África Ocidental, para documentar seu...

24 de ago. de 1955

19 de mai. de 1965

12 de mar. de 1959

A compilation of black and white excerpts from five previous color films by Jean Rouch: Yenendi, the Rainmakers, Cemeteries in the Cliff, The Mille...

10 de dez. de 1959

"Mammy Water" is mother sea, source of food. Jean Rouch filmed this short documentary in the Gulf of Guinea, in Ghana, where is held a colorful fes...

01 de jan. de 1953

An African travels to Paris to learn about the construction of tall buildings, but is soon taken up with the oddities of French life.

22 de ago. de 1970

Jean Rouch gives a group of black and white teenagers a "what if" question: what if they socialised with each other? The teenagers then improvise t...

18 de abr. de 1961

Collaborative experimental project on which three director made different films about the Swedish icebreaker "Frej".

05 de set. de 1990

A Film by Jean Rouch and Tam-Sir Doueb.

01 de jan. de 1989

Jaguar, a kind of road movie on foot, tells of the journey of three friends, Damouré, Lam and Illo, on their way to the Gold Coast where they hope ...

03 de set. de 1967

One of four film sketches on the problems of adolescents facing the adult world in the 1960s. The three other sketches were directed by Michel Brau...

27 de ago. de 1964

The title of this film translates literally as 'to put on a hori,' a hori being the Songhay term for ceremony of festival. Here it is used to refe...

01 de jan. de 1972

In February 1974, Pam Sambo Zima, the oldest of the priests of possession in Niamey, Niger, died at the age of seventy-plus years. In his backyard,...

01 de jan. de 1974

In 1946 ethnographic researcher Rouch had attempted to film a "Bangaoui," a hippopotamus hunt along the river Niger, but the results were unsatisfa...

31 de dez. de 1950

Dionysos is a 1984 French comedy film directed by Jean Rouch, starring Jean Monod and Hélène Puiseux. It tells the story of an American drama teach...

04 de set. de 1984

An artist is invited to Turin and is asked to do a painting inspired by the city and the work of Giorgio De Chirico.

10 de out. de 1986

Once upon a time, in the middle of the last century, a great warrior named Babatou. Nigerian jumper from the region Dounga Gurunsi invaded the coun...

01 de jan. de 1976

The film shows the members of a voluntary association of young people from Upper Volta who work in Abidjan, Ivory Coast - first at their work, then...

01 de jan. de 1966

01 de jan. de 1951

A film in four episodes presenting teenage girls chosen as representative of their country and our time, in Italy, France, Japan and Canada. In spi...

19 de ago. de 1964

In a busy, noisy neighborhood, a frustrated young wife in a failing marriage is offered her freedom by her indifferent husband, but has second thou...

19 de mai. de 1965

An anthropological study of a cargo cult in a fictitious self-marginalized commune, which existed next to the Moscow Ring Road - a highway that mar...

15 de jun. de 2012

The story follows three poultry sellers on a trip across the bush, attempting to deliver a load of chickens to a market in Niamey.

01 de jan. de 1974

11 de mai. de 1977

Etnographic documentary about lion hunting in Africa.

15 de out. de 1966

"Tourou et Bitti", an eight minute documentary concerning a ritual in Niger, is yet another example of Rouch's excellence in creating documentaries...

01 de jan. de 1971

In 1972, the Dogon of the Bandiagara cliff in Mali celebrated the funeral of Anaï Dolo, head of the Bongo Masks Society, who died at the age of 122...

25 de jun. de 1979

Rites and operation of the circumcision of thirty Songhai children on the Niger. Material of this film has been used to make "Les Fils de l'Eau".

01 de jan. de 1949

"Their land drought-stricken, three Nigerien farmers (and their donkey) travel to Holland to investigate the possibility of importing windmill tech...

25 de fev. de 1993

01 de jan. de 1947

Jean Rouch’s camera follows his friend, filmmaker/actor/critic Farrokh Ghaffari, as he walks and talks us through the famous Shah Mosque in Esfehan...

01 de mar. de 1977

A fortuitous meeting, late one afternoon, in the garden of the Tuileries, of one or two cameras, a tape recorder, and three cameramen/directors, Ra...

01 de jan. de 1983

Not much film stock, an inspired camera, a meditation on time, period songs: using contemporary images, shot at a time when the broken city was sta...

01 de jan. de 1987

An aimless young woman is sent home from school with nothing to do. Drifting through the streets of Paris, she comes across a variety of people.

10 de mar. de 1962

In Jean Rouch's cinematic reinterpretation of Julius-Amédée Laou's theatrical work, a freshly appointed nurse steps into the chaotic world of a psy...

01 de out. de 1986

From the bridges of Porto to its estuary, two men are paying tribute to the elegant Douro River. Through Luís de Camões and Prince Henry the Naviga...

01 de jan. de 1997

The young goat herders from the cliff of Bandiagara practice on the stone drums of their ancestors. An ethnomusicological film experiment describin...

01 de jan. de 1966

Two parts magical drama and one part straight documentary, this outing from famed ethnographic filmmaker Jean Rouch is set somewhere in Nigeria nea...

22 de fev. de 1997

Jean Rouch filmed this loving and humorous portrait of anthropologist and filmmaker Margaret Mead in September 1977 while he was a guest of the fir...

04 de out. de 1978

Ritual of introduction, for a Songhaî young woman from Tillabérie, in Niger, to the dance of possession devoted to "Kirey", genie of thunder.

22 de fev. de 1948

A man rides a VW Beetle through the plains of Niger.

01 de jan. de 1973

A film about a lion.

01 de jan. de 1972

Three pioneers of documentary filmmaking – Joris Ivens, Henri Storck, and the man behind the camera, Jean Rouch – recall the early days of the docu...

09 de jul. de 1980

On the occasion of the bicentenary of the French Revolution, a group of Haitians in Paris undertake a voodoo ritual in front of Les Invalides, to r...

01 de jan. de 1990

First part of the collaborative project "Brise-Glace" showing the diverse travels on the icebreaker "Frej". Directed by Jean Rouch.

15 de dez. de 1987

When the male nurse Damouré Zika talks about AIDS with his two friends Lam and Tallou, under the admiring eye of his own wife Lobo, who is a nurse'...

01 de jan. de 1992

It's the final of the giraffe football world championship. The 403 and the 504 are in the final. The referee gives the instructions and the cars ru...

01 de jan. de 1973

Mariama and Damouré, two cousins, are in Venice looking for a relic—or fetish—lost a long time ago, as in one of Gentile Bellini’s famous painting...

01 de jan. de 1987

A woman's funeral in Ghana.

01 de jan. de 1960

This film, made in one afternoon, is an "inspired promenade," the discovery of an exhibition with improvised text and commentary. Five shot sequenc...

01 de jan. de 1997