Jean Rouch Movies

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

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...

A ritual vase, the hampi, is placed in the center of the Musée de plein air de la République du Niger in Niamey, during a ritual...

The Midnight Sun Film Festival is held every June in the Finnish village of Sodankylä beyond the arctic circle — where the sun never sets....

This documentary offers an overview of French scientific research in Africa French scientific research in Africa: hydrology, botany, biology oil...

Collective contribution to a history of cinema, this issue of the “Civilisations” collection also takes part in the genesis of Deux ou...

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

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...

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

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...

Dogon funerary rites in the village of Ireli at the foot of the Bandiagara cliffs, Mali.

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

Etnographic documentary about lion hunting in Africa.

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...

In the village of Simiri, Niger, fisherman Daouda is also a priest of the cult of Dongo, the god of Thunder for the Songhay people. He tells the...

"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...

Documentary portrait of Dziga Vertov, father of documentary cinema.

A man rides a VW Beetle through the plains of Niger.

A Film by Jean Rouch and Tam-Sir Doueb.

The first film in Jean Rouch's filmography is not his first film at all. It was edited by a French news company, using images he had shot but...