Jean Rouch Movies

Rouch’s earliest surviving film, which depicts the Sorko of Niger on a hippopotamus hunt. - MoMA

A film by Jean Rouch.

Scene of possession during a ceremony to appeal for rain in Niger.

Directed by Jean Rouch.

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

A film by Jean Rouch.

Directed by Jean Rouch.

Directed by Jean Rouch.

A film about a lion.

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

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...

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...