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In 1991 Jean Rouch started work on his feature film MADAME L’EAU, much of which was shot in Holland. This documentary follows the film crew and provides a glimpse behind the scenes as Jean Rouch and his...
A tribute to Jean Rouch’s importance to anthropology and to film history, but uses his ‘shared anthropology’ method to show the ambiguity of anthropology in the formation of African identity. Rouch...
The director, Dominique Dubosc gives Jean Rouch the opportunity to improvise a new commentary for his first film made in 1947, In the Land of the Black Magi (Au pays des mages noirs) of a Songhay possession...
Shows a ceremony of the Hauka, a religious sect in West Africa, and explores questions of dependence, domination and synthesis. During trance possession the participants of the ceremony reflect traditional...
Presents the history of research on the Dogon since the famous 1931 expedition of Marcel Griaule, establishing the original expedition in the context of French anthropology at the time. Jean Rouch,...
A video-based package, with film of songs and dances carried out by the wives of King Gbèfa (1948-1976) from the palace at Porto-Novo in Benin. The women sing long poems ‘a capella’ while resting on...
A decade since Sierra Leone’s devastating civil war, from the ashes rises a new dawn of creativity in audio-visual media. Inspired by Jean Rouch’s ‘shared anthropology’ and ‘ethno-fiction’,...
Pioneering cinéma verité documentary consisting of a series of interviews with a variety of real-life individuals in Paris and Saint-Tropez. The result is a film that questions the level of reality and...
A history of non-fiction films, looking at the pioneers, the techniques and the equipment. Considers the main influences on documentary film-making, and shows clips of cinéma vérité classics including...
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