Jean Rouch Movies

A woman's funeral in Ghana.

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

Directed by Jean Rouch.

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...

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

Directed by Jean Rouch.

Directed by Jean Rouch.

Directed by Jean Rouch.

A film by Jean Rouch.

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...

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.

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

A film about a lion.

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

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...

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