Movies: Jean Rouch

  • 1961
    Chronicle of a Summer

    Chronicle of a Summer (1961)

    Chronicle of a Summer

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    Paris, summer 1960. Anthropologist and filmmaker Jean Rouch and sociologist and film critic Edgar Morin wander through the crowded streets asking passersby how they cope with life's misfortunes....

    Chronicle of a Summer
  • 1973
    The Year 01

    The Year 01 (1973)

    The Year 01

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    The film narrates a utopian abandonment, consensual and festive of the market economy and high productivity. The population decides on a number of resolutions beginning with "We stop everything" and the second "After a total downtime will be revived-...

    The Year 01
  • 1978
    Cinématon

    Cinématon (1978)

    Cinématon

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    Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 silent vignettes (cinématons), each...

    Cinématon
  • 1965
    Six in Paris

    Six in Paris (1965)

    Six in Paris

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    Six vignettes set in different sections of Paris, by six directors. St. Germain des Pres (Douchet), Gare du Nord (Rouch), Rue St. Denis (Pollet), and Montparnasse et Levallois (Godard) are stories of love, flirtation and prostitution; Place d'Etoile ...

    Six in Paris
  • 2010
    Sodankylä Forever

    Sodankylä Forever (2010)

    Sodankylä Forever

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    The Midnight Sun Film Festival is held every June in the Finnish village of Sodankylä beyond the arctic circle — where the sun never sets. Founded by Aki and Mika Kaurismäki along with Anssi Mänttäri and Peter von Bagh in 1985, the festival has playe...

    Sodankylä Forever
  • 1955
    The Mad Masters

    The Mad Masters (1955)

    The Mad Masters

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    The subject of the film was the Hauka movement. The Hauka movement consisted of mimicry and dancing to become possessed by French Colonial administrators. The participants performed the same elaborate military ceremonies of their colonial occupiers, ...

    The Mad Masters
  • 1959
    Moi, un Noir

    Moi, un Noir (1959)

    Moi, un Noir

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    Winner of the prestigious Prix Louis Delluc in 1958, "Moi, un noir" marked Jean Rouch's break with traditional ethnography, and his embrace of the collaborative and improvisatory strategies he called "shared ethnography" and "ethnofiction". The film ...

    Moi, un Noir
  • 1995
    Son of Gascogne

    Son of Gascogne (1995)

    Son of Gascogne

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    You're a provincial kid in Paris and suddenly you're the center of attention: Movie stars, famous directors and sexy women are doting on you because they all think you're the son of their long-dead legendary friend. You never knew your dad, but the f...

    Son of Gascogne
  • 1963
    The Lovely Month of May

    The Lovely Month of May (1963)

    The Lovely Month of May

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    Candid interviews of ordinary people on the meaning of happiness, an often amorphous and inarticulable notion that evokes more basic and fundamentally egalitarian ideals of self-betterment, prosperity, tolerance, economic opportunity, and freedom....

    The Lovely Month of May
  • 1967
    Civilisation: L'homme et les images

    Civilisation: L'homme et les images (1967)

    Civilisation: L'homme et les images

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    Collective contribution to a history of cinema, this issue of the “Civilisations” collection also takes part in the genesis of Deux ou trois choses que je sais d'elle and La Chinoise...

    Civilisation: L'homme et les images
  • 1961
    The Human Pyramid

    The Human Pyramid (1961)

    The Human Pyramid

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    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 their own characters and situations....

    The Human Pyramid
  • 2012
    Mad Mimes

    Mad Mimes (2012)

    Mad Mimes

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    An anthropological study of a cargo cult in a fictitious self-marginalized commune, which existed next to the Moscow Ring Road - a highway that marks the boundaries of the Russian capital - and survived mainly on roadside trash. Although the road pro...

    Mad Mimes
  • 1964
    La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même

    La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même (1964)

    La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même

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    Made for Cinéastes de notre temps series. In 1964, several French New Wave auteurs discuss the success and crisis of the wave. Featuring Claude Chabrol, François Truffaut, Jacques Rivette, Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Rozier, Jacques Demy, Agnès Varda, J...

    La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même
  • 1967
    Jaguar

    Jaguar (1967)

    Jaguar

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    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 to make a fortune in order to return to their village in a few months....

    Jaguar
  • 1986
    The Ordinary Madness of a Daughter of Ham

    The Ordinary Madness of a Daughter of Ham (1986)

    The Ordinary Madness of a Daughter of Ham

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    In Jean Rouch's cinematic reinterpretation of Julius-Amédée Laou's theatrical work, a freshly appointed nurse steps into the chaotic world of a psychiatric ward. Tasked with nurturing the minds within, she forms a profound connection with a patient f...

    The Ordinary Madness of a Daughter of Ham
  • 1966
    The Lion Hunters

    The Lion Hunters (1966)

    The Lion Hunters

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    Etnographic documentary about lion hunting in Africa....

    The Lion Hunters
  • 1992
    Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave

    Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave (1992)

    Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave

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    An intimate window into one of the great movements in film history that brought about an evolution in the art of cinema. The documentary portrays the movement with insight on the lives and works of Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut and other princip...

    Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave
  • 1998
    Ciguri – Tarahumaras 98 - La Danse Du Peyotl

    Ciguri – Tarahumaras 98 - La Danse Du Peyotl (1998)

    Ciguri – Tarahumaras 98 - La Danse Du Peyotl

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    A documentary cycle involving the Rarámuri or Tarahumara people of Northern Mexico. This film addresses rites of winter as well as peyote and bakaka rites. Its commentary, read by Raymonde Carasco and Jean Rouch, is drawn from texts by Antonin Artaud...

    Ciguri – Tarahumaras 98 - La Danse Du Peyotl
  • 1974
    Cock-A-Doodle-Doo! Mr Chicken

    Cock-A-Doodle-Doo! Mr Chicken (1974)

    Cock-A-Doodle-Doo! Mr Chicken

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

    Cock-A-Doodle-Doo! Mr Chicken
  • 1966
    World Without a Game

    World Without a Game (1966)

    World Without a Game

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    Documentary portrait of Dziga Vertov, father of documentary cinema....

    World Without a Game