Jean Rouch Movies

A film in four episodes presenting teenage girls chosen as representative of their country and our time, in Italy, France, Japan and Canada. In spite...

A group of factory workers in post-independence Mozambique perform a ritual of song describing their work in South African gold mines and decrying...

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...

Etnographic documentary about lion hunting in Africa.

It's the final of the giraffe football world championship. The 403 and the 504 are in the final. The referee gives the instructions and the cars rush...

An aimless young woman is sent home from school with nothing to do. Drifting through the streets of Paris, she comes across a variety of people.

A Film by Jean Rouch and Tam-Sir Doueb.

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...

Filmed in May 1971 in Niger, this short documentary records a possession ritual performed by the Simiri people in response to a locust invasion. The...

Portrait of a rebel expat Estonian filmmaker Vladimir Karasjov-Orgusaar.

This short film was shot in 2002 during Bilan du Film Ethnographic for the purpose of introducing Jean Rouch to the audience at 2003 Taiwan...

Commemorative celebrations of the independence of the Republic of Niger filmed in December 1961 and 1962.

In a busy, noisy neighborhood, a frustrated young wife in a failing marriage is offered her freedom by her indifferent husband, but has second...

Based on a traditional folktale, this animated film follows the hero Sambagana, who must complete a succession of arduous trials in order to make a...

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...

The film shows the members of a voluntary association of young people from Upper Volta who work in Abidjan, Ivory Coast - first at their work, then...

This portrait of the French film theorist and avant-garde director Jean Epstein (1897-1953) concentrates on the period when he filmed in Brittany,...

In front of Jean Rouch's camera, Germaine Dieterlen recalls her ethnographic itinerary, at the Musée de l'Homme, in Mali and in the Paris of...

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

A documentary cycle involving the Rarámuri or Tarahumara people of Northern Mexico. This film addresses rites of winter as well as peyote and...