Jean Rouch Movies

  • 1958
    Une sortie de novices de Sakpata

    Une sortie de novices de Sakpata

    Une sortie de novices de Sakpata

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    Sakpata is one of the main deities of the "Vodoun" pantheon in Benin (Dahomey at the time of filming, in 1958). Initiation into the cult of the...

    Une sortie de novices de Sakpata
  • 2000
    Nouvelle Vague : El cine sin dogmas

    Nouvelle Vague : El cine sin dogmas

    Nouvelle Vague : El cine sin dogmas

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    Nouvelle Vague : El cine sin dogmas
  • 1968
    Sigui 1968: The Dancers of Tyogou

    Sigui 1968: The Dancers of Tyogou

    Sigui 1968: The Dancers of Tyogou

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    The second year of the Sigui ceremonies, celebrated every sixty years by the Dogons of the Bandiagara cliffs, Mali, takes place in the village of...

    Sigui 1968: The Dancers of Tyogou
  • 1972
    Sigui 1972: The Loincloths of Yamé

    Sigui 1972: The Loincloths of Yamé

    Sigui 1972: The Loincloths of Yamé

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    The sixth year of the Sigui ceremonies, celebrated every sixty years by the Dogons of the Bandiagara cliffs, Mali.

    Sigui 1972: The Loincloths of Yamé
  • 1990
    Brise-glace

    Brise-glace

    Brise-glace

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    Collaborative experimental project on which three director made different films about the Swedish icebreaker "Frej".

    Brise-glace
  • 1989
    Boulevards d'Afrique

    Boulevards d'Afrique

    Boulevards d'Afrique

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    A Film by Jean Rouch and Tam-Sir Doueb.

    Boulevards d'Afrique
  • 1964
    The Fifteen-Year-Old Widows

    The Fifteen-Year-Old Widows

    The Fifteen-Year-Old Widows

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    One of four film sketches on the problems of adolescents facing the adult world in the 1960s. The three other sketches were directed by Michel...

    The Fifteen-Year-Old Widows
  • 1971
    Sigui 1971: The Dune of Idyeli

    Sigui 1971: The Dune of Idyeli

    Sigui 1971: The Dune of Idyeli

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    The fifth year of the Sigui ceremonies, celebrated every sixty years by the Dogons of the Bandiagara cliffs, Mali, takes place in the village of...

    Sigui 1971: The Dune of Idyeli
  • 1999
    Cinéma, de notre temps: Mosso, mosso (Jean Rouch comme si...)

    Cinéma, de notre temps: Mosso, mosso (Jean Rouch comme si...)

    Cinéma, de notre temps: Mosso, mosso (Jean Rouch comme si...)

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    Cinéma, de notre temps: Mosso, mosso (Jean Rouch comme si...)
  • 1974
    Cock-A-Doodle-Doo! Mr Chicken

    Cock-A-Doodle-Doo! Mr Chicken

    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
  • 1967
    Jaguar

    Jaguar

    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...

    Jaguar
  • 1953
    Mammy Water

    Mammy Water

    Mammy Water

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    "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...

    Mammy Water
  • 1981
    Sigui Synthesis: The Invention of Speech and Death

    Sigui Synthesis: The Invention of Speech and Death

    Sigui Synthesis: The Invention of Speech and Death

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    Sigui 1967-1973: invention de la parole et de la mort is a never-before-seen synthesis of the roaming ceremony of the Dogon people living in Mali,...

    Sigui Synthesis: The Invention of Speech and Death
  • 1970
    Little by Little

    Little by Little

    Little by Little

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    An African travels to Paris to learn about the construction of tall buildings, but is soon taken up with the oddities of French life.

    Little by Little
  • 1959
    Les Fils de l'eau

    Les Fils de l'eau

    Les Fils de l'eau

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    A compilation of black and white excerpts from five previous color films by Jean Rouch: Yenendi, the Rainmakers, Cemeteries in the Cliff, The Millet...

    Les Fils de l'eau
  • 2012
    Mad Mimes

    Mad Mimes

    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...

    Mad Mimes
  • 2013
    My Conversations on Film

    My Conversations on Film

    My Conversations on Film

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    This distinctly personal journey into the artistic possibilities of independent film is not to be missed. Jonas Mekas, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Robert...

    My Conversations on Film
  • 2004
    Jean Rouch, des mensonges plus vrais que la réalité

    Jean Rouch, des mensonges plus vrais que la réalité

    Jean Rouch, des mensonges plus vrais que la réalité

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    Jean Rouch, des mensonges plus vrais que la réalité
  • 2010
    The Dreamed Films

    The Dreamed Films

    The Dreamed Films

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    Belgian filmmaker Eric Pauwels' meditation on dream, travel and film.

    The Dreamed Films
  • 1957
    Baby Ghana

    Baby Ghana

    Baby Ghana

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    Shows independence festivities in Ghana, formerly the Gold Coast, which on 6th March had become the first African colony to gain independence.

    Baby Ghana