Search Results for: "Jean Rouch"

No outside figure has contributed more to the cinema of francophone West Africa than Jean Rouch. Yet, much as he devoted his life's work to subverting the power dynamics of the anthropological gaze, his influen...

“I was trained by people who were important researchers and who were at the same time great poets.” - Jean Rouch in an interview with Enrico Fulchignoni. (1) When I read Paul Henley’s The Adventure of the Rea...

Joram ten Brink’s interest in French Ethnographer-Cinéaste Jean Rouch’s (1918-2004) work “resurfaced” after the latter’s death in Africa. In October 2004, he organised the highly successful conference Building ...

Conference report French Institute, London, October 5–14, 2004 When Jean Rouch died in February 2004, at the age of 86, he had completed around 120 films, with perhaps 20 more awaiting his attention in...

Bruni explores the unique method of Rouch's early '60s documentary films and their fascinating results as they intermingle the camera-eye and human-eye for a new reality.

b. 31 May, 1917, Paris, France d. 18 February, 2004, Birni N’Konni, Niger   When Jean Rouch travelled to Niger in 1954 to screen Bataille sur le grand fleuve for its protagonists, the group of hip...

Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining (1980) has gained notoriety not only for the sheer quantity of critical analysis it has produced, a voluminous outpouring of exegesis from scholars, critics and fans alike that sho...

A touchstone for the highly politicised debates in film criticism during the 1960s and 1970s, the work of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet appeared, by the early 2000s, to have suffered a terminal decline...

Editor of Cahiers du cinéma between 1965 and 1973, Jean-Louis Comolli’s foundational place in the history of film theory will be assured by several key texts – among them “Technique and Ideology”, “Cinema/Ideol...

b. 25 March 1897, Warsaw, Poland d. 2 April 1953, Paris, France I. Jean Epstein was an important figure in the school of filmmaking variously called “French Impressionism”, the “narrative avant-garde”...

b. April 17, 1943, Paris, France filmography bibliography articles in Senses Jean-Pierre Gorin first achieved international attention through his collaborations with Jean-Luc Godard as the Dziga Ver...

From Antoine Doinel to René Vidal, Léaud's has been a fascinating career.

ENTRIES IN PART 4: Michael Heath Maggie Hennefeld Alain Hertay David Heslin Lee Hill Kierran A. HornerBrian Hu Christoph Huber Darik Janik Paul Jeffery Matthew Jordan Michael Heath Screenwrite...

ENTRIES IN PART 7: Jayanth Naga Sai Pasupulati Peter Nagels Virat Nehru Boris Nelepo Andy Norton Veton Nurkollari Gabrielle O’Brien Darragh O’Donoghue Wilfred Okiche SvenErik Olsen Andreea Pătru Ant...

ENTRIES IN PART 5: Daniel Kasman Christopher Kearney Nolan Kelly Simon Killen Rainer Knepperges Ricardo Köhler Benjamin Kooyman Maja Korbecka Sneha Krishnan Jay KuehnerAdam Kuntavanish Otto Kylmälä ...

Translated by Cristina Río López Between 4 and 8 May, in Tui (a Galician town near the Portuguese border) the most recent edition of the documentary festival Play-Doc took place, in a return to the pre-pande...

Anytime I’ve wondered about the pandemic’s impact on my relationship with cinema – a depressing exercise I’ve indulged in far too often over these godforsaken two years – it’s the changes in how I watch films I...

ENTRIES IN PART 1: Antti Alanen Victor Alicea Francisco Algarín Navarro Salvador Amores Geoff Andrew Cinema Antiviral. Martyn Bamber Jennifer Lynde Barker Arta Barzanji Amarsanaa Battulga Mike Bartl...

ENTRIES IN PART 2: José Cabrera Betancort Thomas Caldwell Michelle Carey Nicolás Carrasco Michael J. Casey Kevin Cassidy Guilherme Cavalcanti Jeremy Chamberlin Daryl Chin Janina CiezadloJesús Cortés ...

A beautifully presented account of Herzog’s work, Kristoffer Hegnsvad’s book finds its purpose in both its design and in its sense of affiliation. Hegnsvad is a documentary filmmaker as well as a writer, and so...

ENTRIES IN PART 5: Jonathan Mackris Bob Manning Łukasz Mańkowski Miguel Marías Jack McCulloch Tim McQueen Adrian Mendizabal Jamie Mendonça Douglas Messerli Stefano Miraglia Olaf Möller Marcel Müller...

AFI FEST Presented by Audi Two Invisible Wars Ensconced in the mountains of the Southern Caucasus, a disputed breakaway enclave within Azerbaijan, the small republic of Artsakh (formerly Nagorno-Karabakh) is...

Steven Ungar’s Critical Mass groups together and examines three-and-a-half decades worth of non-fiction filmmaking in France, making a compelling case for the existence of a mid-century tradition of the “social...

“I think cinema has helped me turn sadness into anger. But this is not an angry picture.” From the third floor of de Doelen, Luis López Carrasco stares at the floor to ceiling windows shielding us from a storm ...

The Invention of Robert Bresson is a book to take as seriously as its subject demands. Guided by a natural sensitivity to the films – something shared by many – Colin Burnett pursued uncommon historical researc...

In Paris, during the grey and wintry month of March, dazzling colours and geometric patterns on the famous glass and steel façade of the Centre Pompidou announced the Vasarely exhibition on the building’s top f...

The real is leaders whose relationship to the world is only comprised of statistics, figures and data and have lost all sense of reality and humanity The real is when at 3 years old you ask your mother why t...

Valérie Massadian’s charismatic and raw interviews match her work. In this conversation she discusses her background, her approach to reality, and how both inform her filmmaking practice. The interview was c...

ENTRIES IN PART 5: Eugenia Lai Marc Lauria Elaine Lennon Raúl Liébana Thomas Logoreci Tara Lomax Josh B. Mabe Ioannis Makris Bob Manning Miguel Marias Jack McCulloch Brian McFarlane Kenta McGrath...

ENTRIES IN PART 2: Thomas Caldwell Michael Campi Nicolas Carrasco Michael J. Casey Celluloid Liberation Front Jeremy Chamberlin Daryl Chin Graiwoot Chulphongsathorn Roberta Ciabarra Adam Cook Jesús...

ENTRIES IN PART 1: Antti Alanen Francisco Algarín Navarro Victor Alicea Rowena Santos Aquino Luke Aspell Martyn Bamber Michael Bartlett Rhett Bartlett Arta Barzanji Raphaël Bassan Conor Bateman Gu...

In 1972, Ms. editor Jane O’Reilly coined the term “click!” in an article titled “The Housewife’s Moment of Truth.” “Click,” she said, referred to “that parenthesis of truth around a little thing that completes ...

Late in one of the greatest filmic encounters with what scholars have started to conceptualise as the “long 1968,” we listen to a voiceover (VO) calmly narrating the gradual disappearance of one of the film’s p...

Makavejev aims to tear down and rebuild the basic blocks of moviemaking itself. Toggling easily, even imperceptibly, between fiction and documentary, his films can appear to be vérité portraits of everyday life...

Further Reflections and Omissions In line with my heading “Further Reflection and Omissions”, I want to briefly note and emphasise the problems of the repressed and exclusionary aspects of the AFT&C projec...

I fully admit to having trouble with nostalgia – in life, but especially on film. So searing is the “real” version, I find, it has to be at least partially repressed. Nostalgia’s screen portrayal, meanwhile, ne...