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20-432: Rouch is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Jean Rouch (1917–2004), French film director and anthropologist Mickaël Rouch (born 1993), French rugby league footballer Peter Rouch (born 1966), British Anglican clergyman See also [ edit ] Rouch Point , a headland of Antarctica [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with

40-882: A French colonial hydrology engineer to supervise a construction project in Niger . There he met Damouré Zika , the son of a Songhai traditional healer and fisherman, near the town of Ayorou , on the Niger River . After ten Sorko workers were killed by lightning at a construction depot Rouch supervised, Zika's grandmother, a famous possession medium and spiritual advisor, presided over a ritual for men, which Rouch later claimed sparked his desire to make ethnographic film. He became interested in Zarma and Songhai ethnology, filming Songhai rituals and ceremonies. Rouch sent his work to his teacher Marcel Griaule , who encouraged him to continue it. Shortly afterward, Rouch returned to France to participate in

60-518: A log. In French West Africa , the term refers to handcrafted banana-shaped boats used by traditional fishermen. In Madagascar, it also includes the more elaborate Austronesian lakana outrigger canoe . Pirogues are usually propelled by paddles that have one blade (as opposed to a kayak paddle, which has two). It can also be punted with a push pole in shallow water. Small sails are built by local fishermen and they can also be employed. There are two types of sails with differences in their shapes,

80-582: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Jean Rouch Jean Rouch ( French: [ʁuʃ] ; 31 May 1917 – 18 February 2004) was a French filmmaker and anthropologist . He is considered one of the founders of cinéma vérité in France. Rouch's practice as a filmmaker, for over 60 years in Africa, was characterized by the idea of shared anthropology . Influenced by his discovery of surrealism in his early twenties, many of his films blur

100-502: The Gold Coast . Three men dramatized their real-life roles in the film, and became the first three actors of Nigerien cinema . Zika helped reedit the film, originally a silent ethnographic piece, into a feature-length movie somewhere between documentary and fiction ( docufiction ), and provided dialogue and commentary for a 1969 release. In 1957 Rouch directed Moi, un noir in Côte d'Ivoire with

120-500: The Resistance . After the war, he did a brief stint as a journalist with Agence France-Presse before returning to Africa, where he became an influential anthropologist and sometimes controversial filmmaker. Zika and Rouch became friends. In 1950, Rouch started to use Zika as the central character of his films, registering the traditions, culture, and ecology of the people of the Niger River valley. The first film in which Zika appeared

140-638: The University of Cape Town at Philippe-Joseph Salazar 's invitation. He gave two lectures on his work and shot some footage in the Black townships with his assistant Rita Sherman. Rouch died in a car accident in February 2004, 16 kilometres from Birni-N'Konni , Niger. In her 2017 essay "How the Art World, and Art Schools, Are Ripe for Sexual Abuse", contemporary artist Coco Fusco details an early encounter with Rouch: "I

160-407: The surname Rouch . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rouch&oldid=1087062088 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description

180-627: The Caribbean, the now-Mexican and Gulf Coasts and the East Coast of what is now the United States. For the most part, though, such vessels were used for scouting or as tenders . Pirogues were used by Lewis and Clark on the Missouri River and westward from 1804–1806, in addition to bateaux , larger flat-bottomed boats that could only be used in large rivers. Their pirogues were medium-sized boats of

200-576: The Zarma and Sorko peoples living along the Niger River . He is generally considered the father of Nigerien cinema . Despite arriving as a colonialist in 1941, Rouch remained in Niger after independence and mentored a generation of Nigerien filmmakers and actors, including Zika. During the 1950s, Rouch began to produce longer ethnographic films. In 1954 he cast Zika in Jaguar as a young Songhai man traveling for work to

220-591: The colonial era for distorting reality. Rouch is considered a pioneer of Nouvelle Vague and visual anthropology , and the father of ethnofiction . His films are mostly cinéma vérité , a term Edgar Morin used in a 1960 France-Observateur article referring to the Kino-Pravda newsreels of Dziga Vertov . Rouch's best-known film, one of the central works of the Nouvelle Vague, is Chronique d'un été (1961), which he filmed with sociologist Edgar Morin and portrays

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240-665: The company carrying eight rowers and a pilot, capable of carrying eight tons of cargo. Henry D. Thoreau writes of using heavy pirogues in his book The Maine Woods . Pirogues in the United States are associated particularly with the Cajuns of the Louisiana marsh. The early Creole pirogues were cypress dugouts but today they are usually flat-bottomed boats . Pirogues are not usually intended for overnight travel but are light and small enough to be easily taken onto land. The design also allows

260-554: The line between fiction and documentary, creating a new style: ethnofiction . The French New Wave filmmakers hailed Rouch as one of their own. Commenting on Rouch's work as someone "in charge of research for the Musée de l'Homme " in Paris, Godard said, “Is there a better definition for a filmmaker?". Rouch began his long association with Nigerien subjects in 1941, when he arrived in Niamey as

280-466: The pirogue down the bayou". Johnny Horton , an avid Louisiana fisherman who celebrated Cajun customs and culture, also mentions pirogues in his 1956 song "I Got a Hole in My Pirogue". Hank Williams, Jr. (son of the aforementioned Hank Williams) had a hit song in 1969 "Cajun Baby", which refers to the pirogue in the line "ride around in my old pirogue". Doug Kershaw 's 1961 hit "Louisiana Man" includes

300-414: The pirogue to move through the very shallow water of marshes and be easily turned over to drain any water that may get into the boat. A pirogue has "hard chines" which means that instead of a smooth curve from the gunwales to the keel , there is often a flat bottom which meets the plane of the side. In his 1952 classic song " Jambalaya ", Hank Williams refers to the pirogue in the line "me gotta go pole

320-558: The social life of contemporary France. Throughout his career, he reported on life in Africa. Over the course of five decades, he made almost 120 films. Rouch and Jean-Michel Arnold founded an international documentary film festival, the Cinéma du Réel , at the Pompidou Centre in Paris in 1978. In 1996, following the election of Nelson Mandela, Rouch visited the Centre for Rhetoric Studies at

340-520: The square one is used mainly for fishing near the coast and is only useful for tailwinds , while the triangular-shaped ones are used to transfer goods from one place to another by maintaining a bowline direction. Outboard motors are increasingly being used in many regions. There are accounts of 17th and 18th century Caribbean pirates using pirogues to attack and take by force much larger vessels including sloops and even barca-longas . Pirogues were used extensively by pirates and buccaneers throughout

360-637: The young Nigerien filmmaker Oumarou Ganda , who had recently returned from French military service in Indochina . Ganda became the first great Nigerien film director and actor. By the early 1970s, Rouch, with cast, crew, and co-writing from his Nigerien collaborators, was producing full-length dramatic films in Niger, such as Petit à petit  [ fr ] ( Little by Little  : 1971) and Cocorico Monsieur Poulet  [ fr ] (" Cocka-doodle-doo Mr. Chicken ": 1974). Many African filmmakers rejected Rouch's and others' ethnographic films produced in

380-740: Was Bataille sur le grand fleuve (1950–52), portraying the life, ceremonies and hunting of Sorko fishermen. Rouch spent four months travelling with Sorko fishermen in a traditional pirogue . His early films, such as Hippopotamus Hunt ( Chasse à l'Hippopotame , 1946), Cliff Cemetery ( Cimetière dans la Falaise , 1951), and The Rain Makers ( Les Hommes qui Font la Pluie , 1951), were traditional, narrated reports, but he gradually became more innovative. Rouch made his first films in Niger : Au pays des mages noirs (1947), Initiation à la danse des possédés (1948) and Les magicians de Wanzarbé (1949), all of which documented Songhai spirit possession rituals and

400-423: Was sexually accosted by the renowned ethnographic filmmaker Jean Rouch, who is credited with having invented a better way to look at Africans." [REDACTED] Media related to Jean Rouch at Wikimedia Commons Pirogue The term 'pirogue' does not refer to a specific kind of boat, but is a generic term for small native boats in regions once colonized by France and Spain , particularly dugouts made from

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