Jean Rouch
Directing • AGE 86
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...
Filmography
Outlaw
Self
2025
L’Enigma di Jean Rouch a Torino - Cronaca di un film raté
2017
My Conversations on Film
Himself
2013
Freddy Buache, le cinéma
Self (archive footage)
2012
Mad Mimes
Property Builder
2012
Jean Epstein, Young Oceans of Cinema
Self (archive footage)
2011
The Dreamed Films
Self
2010
Portrait de Jean Rouch
Self
2004
Jean Rouch, des mensonges plus vrais que la réalité
Lui-même
2004
Encountering Jean Rouch
2003
Nouvelle Vague : El cine sin dogmas
Self
2000
Cinéma, de notre temps: Mosso, mosso (Jean Rouch comme si...)
Himself
1999
Ciguri - Tarahumaras 99 - Le dernier chaman
narrador
1999
Pierre Fatumbi Verger: Messenger Between Two Worlds
Self
1998
Ciguri – Tarahumaras 98 - La Danse Du Peyotl
Narrator
1998
A Friendly Handshake
1997
Germaine et ses copains
Director
1996
Son of Gascogne
Self
1995
Germaine chez elle
himself
1994
An Egg with No Shell
1992
Letter to Jean Rouch
Self
1992
Damouré Speaks About AIDS
Director
1992
Jean Rouch: First Film 1947-1991
Himself
1991
Brise-glace
Director
1990
Cousin, cousine
Director
1987
Couleur du temps. Berlin, Août 1945
Director
1987
Enigma
Director
1986
The Ordinary Madness of a Daughter of Ham
Director
1986
Ciné-Portrait of Raymond Depardon
himself
1983
Funeral at Bongo: The Death of Old Anai
Director
1979
Cinématon
N°1256
1978
Margaret Mead: A Portrait By a Friend
Director
1978
Makwayela
Director
1977
Samba the Great
Narrator
1977
Ispahan: A Persian Letter (The Chah Mosque at Ispahan)
Lui-même
1977
Hommage à Marcel Mauss. Germaine Dieterlen
Director
1977
Badye, the Storyteller
Director
1977
Babatou, Three Pieces of Advice
Director
1976
Zomo et ses frères
Director
1975
Cock-A-Doodle-Doo! Mr Chicken
Director
1974
Pam Kuso Kar (Breaking Pam's Vases)
Director
1974
The Dama of Ambara: To Enchant Death
Director
1974
The Year 01
Co-Director
1973
Boukoki
Director
1973
The Burial of the Hogon
Director
1973
Funeral Rites for Women in Bongo
Director
1973
VW-Voyou
Director
1973
Giraffe Football or “The Alternative”
Director
1973
Horendi
Director
1972
Un lion nommé l'Américain
Director
1972
Sigui 1971: The Dune of Idyeli
Director
1971
Drums from the Past
Director
1971
Sigui 1970: The Clamours of Amani
Director
1970
Little by Little
Director
1970
Architects of Ayorou
Director
1970
Mya - la mère
Director
1970
Sigui 1969: The Cave of Bongo
Director
1969
Sigui 1968: The Dancers of Tyogou
Director
1968
Ayorou Singing Stones
Director
1968
Yenendi de Ganghel (Rain Dance at Ganghel)
Director
1968
Sigui 1967: L'enclume de Yougo
Director
1967
Jaguar
Director
1967
Daouda Sorko
Director
1967
The Lion Hunters
Director
1966
World Without a Game
Self
1966
Dogon Drums, Elements of a Study in Rhythm
Director
1966
The Goumbé of the Young Revelers
Writer
1966
Six in Paris
Director
1965
Gare du Nord
Director
1965
The Fifteen-Year-Old Widows
Director
1964
That Tender Age
Director
1964
La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même
Self
1964
L'Afrique et la recherche scientifique
Director
1964
The Lovely Month of May
Self (uncredited)
1963
Monsieur Albert, prophète
Director
1963
The Doll
Officer (uncredited)
1962
Hampi
Director
1962
The Punishment
Director
1962
Niger Festivals: December 1961 - Niger Independence Days
Director
1962
Chronicle of a Summer
Self
1961
The Human Pyramid
Director
1961
Funérailles au Ghana
Director
1960
The Sons of the Water
1959
I, a Negro
Director
1959
Moro Naba
Director
1958
Baby Ghana
Director
1957
The Mad Masters
Narrator
1955
Mammy Water
Director
1953
The Rainmakers
Director
1951
Cemeteries in the Cliff
Director
1951
Battle on the Great River
Director
1950
Circumcision
Director
1949
Initiation into the Dance of the Possessed
Director
1948
The Magicians of Wanzerbé
Director
1948
In the Land of the Black Magi
Director
1947
Rouch's Gang
Self
Work(ing Together) in Process
Self, the filmmaker before the filmmakers (in 240p)