Jean Rouch Movies

On the occasion of the bicentenary of the French Revolution, a group of Haitians in Paris undertake a voodoo ritual in front of Les Invalides, to...

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

It's the final of the giraffe football world championship. The 403 and the 504 are in the final. The referee gives the instructions and the cars rush...

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

A film about a lion.

On a quest to obtain some misdelivered camera batteries, Sam finds himself in a Rotterdam-based sex shop. Here he meets Marty who works there, and...

Jean Rouch's return to Niger, to meet his African friends and the play "Perses" by Aeschylus provide him with the opportunity to relate his Dionysian...

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

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

An artist is invited to Turin and is asked to do a painting inspired by the city and the work of Giorgio De Chirico.

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

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...

Sakpata is one of the main deities of the "Vodoun" pantheon in Benin (Dahomey at the time of filming, in 1958). Initiation into the cult of the...

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

Directed by Jean Rouch.

Jean Rouch gives a group of black and white teenagers a "what if" question: what if they socialised with each other? The teenagers then improvise...

Rain rituals with possession dances among the Songhay and Zarma of Simiri, Zermaganda, Niger. Dry Season: The village of Simiri; water carriers, the...

Filmed in Firgoun, Niger, the film documents an initiation ceremony in which a young Songhay woman undergoes ritual preparation for the dance of...