Jean Rouch Movies

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 the village of Simiri, Niger, fisherman Daouda is also a priest of the cult of Dongo, the god of Thunder for the Songhay people. He tells the...

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

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...

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 an...

A film by Jean Rouch.