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Jean Rouch

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Jean Rouch (31 May 1917 – 18 February 2004) was a French filmmaker and anthropologist. [1]

52 relations: Agence France-Presse, Albert and David Maysles, Anthropologist, Ayourou, Babatu, Birni-N'Konni, Cahiers du cinéma, Centre Georges Pompidou, Chronique d'un été, Cinéma du Réel, Cinéma vérité, Cinema of Niger, Cinema of Nigeria, Coco Fusco, D. A. Pennebaker, Damouré Zika, Dionysos (film), Direct Cinema, Docufiction, Dziga Vertov, Edgar Morin, Ethnofiction, Ethnography, Filmmaking, France, French New Wave, French Resistance, Gold Coast (British colony), Indochina, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Michel Arnold, Jump cut, Kino-Pravda, L'Homme, L'Obs, Les maîtres fous, Marcel Griaule, Moi, un noir, Musée de l'Homme, Niamey, Niger, Niger River, Oumarou Ganda, Paris, Pirogue, Ricardo Costa (filmmaker), Richard Leacock, Songhai people, Spirit possession, Surrealism, ..., Visual anthropology, Zarma people. Expand index (2 more) »

Agence France-Presse

Agence France-Presse (AFP) is an international news agency headquartered in Paris, France.

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Albert and David Maysles

Albert (November 26, 1926 – March 5, 2015) and his brother David (January 10, 1931 – January 3, 1987) Maysles were an American documentary filmmaking team known for their work in the Direct Cinema style.

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Anthropologist

An anthropologist is a person engaged in the practice of anthropology.

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Ayourou

Ayourou (or Ayorou) is a town in Tillabéri Region, in western Niger.

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Babatu

Babatu is a 1976 Nigerien film directed by Jean Rouch.

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Birni-N'Konni

Birni-N'Konni (also Birnin-Konni or shortened to Konni/Bkonni) is a town in Niger, lying on the border of Nigeria and the Kori River.

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Cahiers du cinéma

Cahiers du Cinéma (Notebooks on Cinema) is a French film magazine founded in 1951 by André Bazin, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze and Joseph-Marie Lo Duca.

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Centre Georges Pompidou

Centre Georges Pompidou, commonly shortened to Centre Pompidou and also known as the Pompidou Centre in English, is a complex building in the Beaubourg area of the 4th arrondissement of Paris, near Les Halles, rue Montorgueil, and the Marais.

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Chronique d'un été

Chronique d'un été ("Chronicle of a Summer") is a 1961 French documentary film shot during the summer of 1960 by sociologist Edgar Morin and anthropologist and filmmaker Jean Rouch, with the technical and aesthetic collaboration of Québécois director-cameraman Michel Brault.

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Cinéma du Réel

Cinéma du Réel (Cinema of the Real) is an international documentary film festival organized by the BPI-Bibliothèque publique d'information (Public Information Library) in Paris and was founded in 1978.

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Cinéma vérité

Cinéma vérité ("truthful cinema") is a style of documentary filmmaking, invented by Jean Rouch, inspired by Dziga Vertov's theory about Kino-Pravda and influenced by Robert Flaherty’s films.

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Cinema of Niger

The cinema in Niger grew from ethnographic documentaries in the colonial period to become one of the most active national film cultures in Francophone Africa.

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Cinema of Nigeria

The cinema of Nigeria, often referred to informally as Nollywood, consists of films produced in Nigeria; its history dates back to as early as the late 19th century and into the colonial era in the early 20th century.

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Coco Fusco

Coco Fusco (born Juliana Emilia Fusco Miyares; June 18, 1960) is a Cuban-American interdisciplinary artist, writer, and curator whose work has been exhibited and published internationally.

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D. A. Pennebaker

Donn Alan "D.

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Damouré Zika

Damouré Zika (c. 1923 – 6 April 2009. BBC News 7 April 2009.. AFP. 6 April 2009.) was a Nigerien traditional healer, broadcaster, and film actor.

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Dionysos (film)

Dionysos is a 1984 French comedy film directed by Jean Rouch, starring Jean Monod and Hélène Puiseux.

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Direct Cinema

Direct Cinema is a documentary genre that originated between 1958 and 1962 in North America, principally in the Canadian province of Quebec and the United States, and developed by Jean Rouch in France.

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Docufiction

Docufiction (or docu-fiction), often confused with docudrama, is the cinematographic combination of documentary and fiction, this term often meaning narrative film.

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Dziga Vertov

Dziga Vertov (Дзига Вертов; born David Abelevich Kaufman, Дави́д А́белевич Ка́уфман., and also known as Denis Kaufman; 2 January 1896 – 12 February 1954) was a Soviet pioneer documentary film and newsreel director, as well as a cinema theorist.

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Edgar Morin

Edgar Morin (born Edgar Nahoum on 8 July 1921) is a French philosopher and sociologist who has been internationally recognized for his work on complexity and "complex thought" (pensée complexe), and for his scholarly contributions to such diverse fields as media studies, politics, sociology, visual anthropology, ecology, education, and systems biology.

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Ethnofiction

Ethnofiction is a neologism which refers to an ethnographic docufiction, a blend of documentary and fictional film in the area of visual anthropology.

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Ethnography

Ethnography (from Greek ἔθνος ethnos "folk, people, nation" and γράφω grapho "I write") is the systematic study of people and cultures.

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Filmmaking

Filmmaking (or, in an academic context, film production) is the process of making a film, generally in the sense of films intended for extensive theatrical exhibition.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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French New Wave

New Wave (La Nouvelle Vague) is often referred to as one of the most influential movements in the history of cinema.

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French Resistance

The French Resistance (La Résistance) was the collection of French movements that fought against the Nazi German occupation of France and against the collaborationist Vichy régime during the Second World War.

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Gold Coast (British colony)

The Gold Coast was a British colony on the Gulf of Guinea in west Africa from 1867 to its independence as the nation of Ghana in 1957.

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Indochina

Indochina, originally Indo-China, is a geographical term originating in the early nineteenth century and referring to the continental portion of the region now known as Southeast Asia.

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Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard (born 3 December 1930) is a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic.

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Jean-Michel Arnold

Jean-Michel Arnold, General Secretary of the Cinémathèque Française, vice President of UNESCO’s IFTC (International Council for Film Television and Audiovisual Communication), founder of the Cinéma du Réel, Director of CNRS Image/Media, General Secretary of RIAVS, and President of CAMERA.

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Jump cut

A jump cut is a cut in film editing in which two sequential shots of the same subject are taken from camera positions that vary only slightly if at all.

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Kino-Pravda

Kino-Pravda (translation) was a series of 23 newsreels by Dziga Vertov, Elizaveta Svilova, and Mikhail Kaufman.

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L'Homme

L'Homme.

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L'Obs

L’Obs, previously known as Le Nouvel Observateur (1964–2014), is a weekly French news magazine.

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Les maîtres fous

Les maîtres fous ("The Mad Masters") is a 1955 short film directed by Jean Rouch, a well-known French film director and ethnologist.

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Marcel Griaule

Marcel Griaule (16 May 1898 – 23 February 1956) was a French anthropologist known for his studies of the Dogon people of West Africa, and for pioneering ethnographic field studies in France.

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Moi, un noir

Moi, un noir ("Me, a Black "; also released as I, a Negro) is a 1958 French ethnofiction film directed by Jean Rouch.

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Musée de l'Homme

The Musée de l'Homme (French, "Museum of Man") is an anthropology museum in Paris, France.

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Niamey

Niamey is the capital and largest city of the West African country Niger.

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Niger

Niger, also called the Niger officially the Republic of the Niger, is a landlocked country in Western Africa named after the Niger River.

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Niger River

The Niger River is the principal river of West Africa, extending about.

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Oumarou Ganda

Oumarou Ganda (1935 – 1 January 1981) was a Nigerien director and actor who helped bring African cinema to international attention in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of and a population of 2,206,488.

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Pirogue

A pirogue, also called a piragua or piraga, can refer to various small boats, particularly dugouts and native canoes.

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Ricardo Costa (filmmaker)

Ricardo Costa (born 25 January 1940) is a Portuguese film director and producer.

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Richard Leacock

Richard Leacock (18 July 192123 March 2011) was a British-born documentary film director and one of the pioneers of Direct Cinema and Cinéma vérité.

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Songhai people

The Songhai people (also Songhay or Sonrai) are an ethnic group in West Africa who speak the various Songhai languages.

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Spirit possession

Spirit possession is a term for the belief that animas, aliens, demons, extraterrestrials, gods, or spirits can take control of a human body.

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Surrealism

Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for its visual artworks and writings.

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Visual anthropology

Visual anthropology is a subfield of social anthropology that is concerned, in part, with the study and production of ethnographic photography, film and, since the mid-1990s, new media.

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Zarma people

The Zarma people are an ethnic group predominantly found in westernmost Niger also found in significant numbers in the adjacent areas of Nigeria and Benin, along with smaller numbers in Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast and Ghana.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Rouch

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