Jean Rouche (31 May1917 - 18 February2004) was a French motion-picture director and ethnologist. May 31 is the 151st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (152nd in leap years), with 214 days remaining. ... 1917 (MCMXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ... February 18 is the 49th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
He began his long attachment to African subjects in 1941 after working as civil engineer supervising a construction project in Niger. However, shortly afterwards he returned to France to participate in the Resistance. After the war, he did a brief stint as a journalist with Agence France-Presse before returning to Africa where he become an influential ethnologist. A satellite composite image of Africa Africa is the worlds 2nd largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. ... For the movie, see 1941 (film) 1941 (MCMXLI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1941 calendar). ... The French Resistance is the name used for resistance movements that fought military occupation of France by Nazi Germany and the Vichy France undemocratic regime during World War II after the government and the high command of France surrendered in 1940. ... AFP logo Agence France-Presse (AFP) is the oldest news agency in the world. ...
He was killed in an automobile accident in February 2004, some 16 kilometres from the town of Birnin N'Konni in central Niger. 2004 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → // February 29, 2004 Jean-Bertrand Aristide resigns as president of Haiti and flees the country for the Central African Republic. ...
The news of the death of JeanRouch at the age of 87 undoubtedly represents the end of a unique and idiosyncratic approach to filmmaking, though the circumstances of his passing might be considered entirely fitting.
Rouch himself supplied the commentary, inaugurating a style of voice-over which he continued long after direct sound was available.
Rouch was always instrumental in training his African collaborators, several of whom went on to have distinguished careers in film.
The term cinema verité is used so frequently that it is sometimes forgotten that the main instigator of both the label and the style was the ethnological film-maker JeanRouch, who has been killed in a car crash in Niger aged 86, a country that was his second home.
Rouch's first feature-length film, Me, A Black (Moi Un Noir, 1958) allowed a group of people from a suburb of Abidjan on the Ivory Coast to dictate the content of a film on their lives.
In a way, it could be argued that Rouch did become a crocodile, mainly because of his many African friends and co-workers, especially Damouré, a Niger friend, with whom he had a creative collaboration that lasted almost four decades.
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