Jean Rouch Movies
- 1961
Chronicle of a Summer
Chronicle of a Summer7.1961961HD
Paris, summer 1960. Anthropologist and filmmaker Jean Rouch and sociologist and film critic Edgar Morin wander through the crowded streets asking...
- 1970
Little by Little
Little by Little7.1671970HD
An African travels to Paris to learn about the construction of tall buildings, but is soon taken up with the oddities of French life.
- 1963
The Lovely Month of May
The Lovely Month of May81963HD
Candid interviews of ordinary people on the meaning of happiness, an often amorphous and inarticulable notion that evokes more basic and...
- 1955
The Mad Masters
The Mad Masters6.2331955HD
The subject of the film was the Hauka movement. The Hauka movement consisted of mimicry and dancing to become possessed by French Colonial...
- 2012
Mad Mimes
Mad Mimes102012HD
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...
- 1963
Monsieur Albert, prophète
Monsieur Albert, prophète01963HD
Life in a community of Harist disciples in the village of Bregbo, Côte d'Ivoire, under the aegis of their "prophet" Alberto Atcho. 50 km from...
- 1953
Mammy Water
Mammy Water5.81953HD
"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...
- 1978
Cinématon
Cinématon4.31978HD
Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011....
- 1973
The Year 01
The Year 016.5831973HD
The film narrates a utopian abandonment, consensual and festive of the market economy and high productivity. The population decides on a number of...
- 1975
Zomo et ses frères
Zomo et ses frères01975HD
A portrait of Zomo, the second of Damouré Zika’s many children. Employed at the zoo of the National Museum of Niger in Niamey, he offers...
- 2000
Nouvelle Vague : El cine sin dogmas
Nouvelle Vague : El cine sin dogmas02000HD
- 1965
Six in Paris
Six in Paris6.4261965HD
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...
- 1964
L'Afrique et la recherche scientifique
L'Afrique et la recherche scientifique01964HD
This documentary offers an overview of French scientific research in Africa French scientific research in Africa: hydrology, botany, biology oil...
- 1972
Horendi
Horendi8.81972HD
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 refer...
- 1997
I'm Tired of Standing, I Lie Down
I'm Tired of Standing, I Lie Down01997HD
Two parts magical drama and one part straight documentary, this outing from famed ethnographic filmmaker Jean Rouch is set somewhere in Nigeria near...
- 1995
Son of Gascogne
Son of Gascogne4.81995HD
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...
- 1974
Pam Kuso Kar (Breaking Pam's Vases)
Pam Kuso Kar (Breaking Pam's Vases)01974HD
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,...
- 1993
Madame l'eau
Madame l'eau7.21993HD
"Their land drought-stricken, three Nigerien farmers (and their donkey) travel to Holland to investigate the possibility of importing windmill...
- 1992
An Egg with No Shell
An Egg with No Shell11992HD
A male diva sings in a countertenor voice while massacring chickens brought to him by his butler, Jean Rouch, until a slave provides proof of his...
- 1959
Moi, un Noir
Moi, un Noir7.3281959HD
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...