Jean Rouch Movies

A documentary cycle involving the Rarámuri or Tarahumara people of Northern Mexico. This film addresses rites of winter as well as peyote and...

Burial of the Hogon of Sanga, Dogon religious leader of Lower Ogol, Mali.

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

Lightning struck the hut of a Fulani shepherd near a village of settled fishermen, Ganghel, in Niger. A yenendi, a purification ceremony to obtain...

Directed by Jean Rouch.

The young goat herders from the cliff of Bandiagara practice on the stone drums of their ancestors. An ethnomusicological film experiment describing...

Rites of winter, rites of peyote. A creative documentary based on texts by Antonin Artaud read by Jean Rouch, and the words of the last...

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

A short film about two mothers from Niger and how they care for their children.

An avant-garde political satire that takes place in a mythical country in South America. The dictator has been replaced by a look-alike...

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".

Not much film stock, an inspired camera, a meditation on time, period songs: using contemporary images, shot at a time when the broken city was...

Directed by Jean Rouch.

In Mali, women's funeral rite takes place in the village of Bongo, in Dogon country.

Every five years, the mask society of the Dogons of Sanga, Mali, organizes a great Dama, a ceremony to end the period of mourning and drive away "the...

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

Jean Rouch’s camera follows his friend, filmmaker/actor/critic Farrokh Ghaffari, as he walks and talks us through the famous Shah Mosque in...

Directed by Jean Rouch.

Directed by Jean Rouch.

Directed by Jean Rouch.