Jean Rouch Movies

This film, made in one afternoon, is an "inspired promenade," the discovery of an exhibition with improvised text and commentary. Five shot sequences...

The third year of the Sigui ceremonies, celebrated every sixty years by the Dogons of the Bandiagara cliffs, Mali, takes place in the village of...

A Nigerian traditionalist who draws his inspiration from bird warbling to compose music to accompany his verse chronicles.

A young African couple discusses the influence of the West on their traditions. They discuss at length love, polygamy, bourgeois marriage, the...

Directed by Jean Rouch.

The story of an American drama teacher who after writing a thesis on Dionysus tries to combine Dionysian rites with the work at a car factory, in an...

Directed by Jean Rouch.

On the Niger River, the island of Ayorou is home to a “singing stone,” an imposing boulder rock covered with cupules. It is used as a...

Directed by Jean Rouch.

Rites and operation of the circumcision of thirty Songhai children on the Niger. Material of this film has been used to make "Les Fils de l'Eau".

The seventh year of the Sigui ceremonies, celebrated every sixty years by the Dogons of the Bandiagara cliffs, Mali.

A film by Jean Rouch.

Directed by Jean Rouch.

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

Traditional houses and new architecture in Ayorou, an island on the River Niger in the archipelago of Tillaberi. The village and its activities; the...

Filmed in Wanzerbé, Niger, this short documentary records ritual, market exchange, and ceremonial practices, documenting divination,...

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

Directed by Jean Rouch.

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

A film by Jean Rouch.