Catalogue des films de « Jean Rouch »

Jean Rouch’s return to Niger to meet again with his African friends, and the play by Aeschylus "The Persians", provide him with an opportunity to tell about his Dionysiac viewpoint about the world and Songhai mythology. Lam, the now deceased...

Germaine Dieterlen (1903-1999), portrait of a "Great Lady" in ethnology.

Since sixty years, the ethnologists are passionate about Dogon civilization. A mysterious culture whose cosmogony will be fully decrypted in 2147... Using numerous film extracts and the fabulous knowledge of Germaine Dieterlen, Jean Rouch, Denise...

Poème autour du pont de Gustave Eiffel qui enjambe le Douro.

"Madame L'Eau" is a wonderfully poetic film which portrays the present need for North and South to move closer together. The film demonstrates ways of communicating in a seemingly casual manner and with breathtaking artistic control. An...

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 starting to heal its wounds, Jean Rouch recalls his impressions in Berlin immediately after the war....

On the icebreaker “Frej”, three filmmakers each give their own impressions: Rouch films life on board ship, Törnroth records what the crew has to say and Ruiz introduces a touch of fantasy… This three-part film is part of a broader...

Jean Rouch has transposed a text by the Martinican author, Julius Amédé Laou. The scene is set in Sainte-Anne psychiatric hospital. The psychiatrist, Charcot, presents a “spectacular case” to his colleagues. This presentation, seen by the...

La naissance de l'ethnologie française dans la falaise de Bandiagara au Mali.

Tourné entre 1966 et 1974, et finalement monté en 1981, "Sigui Synthèse" retrace la cérémonie du Sigui : tous les 60 ans, à chaque éclipse de Sirius (invisible à l'œil humain), les Dogon procèdent au rituel du Sigui. Celui de 1907 avait...