JEAN ROUCH

DIRECTING

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jean Rouch (French: [ʁuʃ]; 31 May 1917, Paris – 18 February 2004, Niger) was a French filmmaker and anthropologist. He is considered to be one of the founders of cinéma-vérité in France, which shared the aesthetics of the direct cinema.

Rouch's practice as a filmmaker for over sixty years in Africa, was characterized by the idea of shared anthropology.