the great Jean Rouch is dead

[setori2]

The great french film maker Jean Rouch is dead in car crash in his beloved Africa. He was one of the first to film in small gauge, as a professionnal and a scientist, 16mm and also super8. He is one at the origine of Eclair Coutant 16mm famous synch camera. He does many expériences with Super 8 in Mozanbique and other african coutries and was very enthusisatic about that. The whole man was enthusiastic. He made 120 films in 40 years. Two famous films are “I, a black man” (1958) and “Cocorico, monsieur poulet”, an hilarious comedy between 3 black men ans the famous french car 2CV camionette. He was a pionnier in low budget film. Really i am sad, he miss me. See his films.

Philippe

[calgodot]

This is indeed a tragedy. Rouch was a fabulous filmmaker, the father of verité, fascinated with life in all its varieties. Sadly his work is not much seen here in the United States, except maybe by anthropology and ethnology students. His work was very influential in this aphorism I came up with:

"cine = life"

He will be missed.


http://www.indiewire.com/people/people_040224rouch.html

[rollemfilm]

I've only seen small clips of his films. I have read a great deal about him,
but not enough to say he was an influence directly, but indirectly I must
owe a great deal. I will make a point to find his films in the future.

Does anyone know if Chris Marker is still kickin?

[setori]

I think Chris Marker is OK, old man but OK

Philippe

[calgodot]

Chris Marker will never die. One day he will step back into his time machine and go back to hs home world for a bit. He'll stay at a spa and soak up the rays, drinking high-protein energy shakes and tripping on this electro-neural hallucinogenic interactive video game called XAT (pronounced "kat"), which was derived from his work in the early 21st century. Then once he's tanned and rested, he'll zip back to the mid-21st, where he'll pioneer holographic filmmaking and become known as the father of the immersive documentary.

[Commodore]

I'm sorry to say that I've never heard of Jean Rouch, how might I find some of his films? He certainly sounds like a facinating filmmaker.