Jean Rouch

From the bridges of Porto to its estuary, two men are paying tribute to the elegant Douro River. Through Luís de Camões and Prince Henry the ...

First part of the collaborative project “Brise-Glace” showing the diverse travels on the icebreaker “Frej”. Directed by ...

Mariama and Damouré, two cousins, are in Venice looking for a relic—or fetish—lost a long time ago, as in one of Gentile Bellini’s famous ...

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.

In Jean Rouch’s cinematic reinterpretation of Julius-Amédée Laou’s theatrical work, a freshly appointed nurse steps into the chaotic ...

The story of an American drama teacher who after writing a thesis on Dionysus tries to combine Dionysian rites with the work at a car factory, in ...

A fortuitous meeting, late one afternoon, in the garden of the Tuileries, of one or two cameras, a tape recorder, and three cameramen/directors, ...

Three pioneers of documentary filmmaking – Joris Ivens, Henri Storck, and the man behind the camera, Jean Rouch – recall the early days of the ...