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Friends, Fools, Family
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Secondary Title:
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: Rouch's Collaborators in Niger
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Filmmaker Name:
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Berit Madsen, Anne Mette Jørgensen
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Film Length:
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59 min
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Film Year:
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2007
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Duration:
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46-75 min
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Decade:
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2000s
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Color:
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color
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Jean Rouch is known to many worldwide as a French anthropologist and innovative filmmaker. Much of his work is linked to the birth of cinéma vérité. However, Rouch's fifty-year involvement with a particular group of people in Niger shines a more personal light on his work - one of friendship and collaboration. Together with this group, Rouch made numerous ethnographic films and developed their own cinematographic style. These films have been termed 'ethno-fictions.'
In 2003, two Danish anthropologists and filmmakers went to Niger to make a film with Rouch's friends. Their film was going to be an exploration of the methods of the group. It became a story about how this unique collaboration came to change the lives of both the filmmaker and his friends.
This DVD also contains a 15 minute clip of Rouch's friend and collaborator Damouré talking about the film Jaguar.
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