Filmmaker · Ivory Coast
Jean Rouch
Died in 2004
Jean Rouch was born in Paris on 31 May 1917. An engineer, he arrived in Niger in 1941 to oversee works, discovered Songhay rites and turned to ethnography, encouraged by his teacher Marcel Griaule. After the war, he made in West Africa the greater part of a body of films that blurs the boundary between documentary and fiction, and he is counted among the founders of cinéma vérité. In Niger he trained a generation of filmmakers and actors, and he died in that country on 18 February 2004.
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- CinemaThe Human PyramidLa Pyramide humaineJean Rouch · 1961Cinema