Jean Rouch Movies

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

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

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

A young African couple discusses the influence of the West on their traditions. They discuss at length love, polygamy, bourgeois marriage, the...

The young goat herders from the cliff of Bandiagara practice on the stone drums of their ancestors. An ethnomusicological film experiment describing...

Shows independence festivities in Ghana, formerly the Gold Coast, which on 6th March had become the first African colony to gain independence.

Directed by Jean Rouch.