Jean Rouch was a revolutionary filmmaker who was always aware of the power relationship between the observer and the observed in his ethnographic documentaries, and constantly sought out strategies to upset and dismantle that hierarchy.
Here’s Les Maitres Fous from 1955, like many Rouch films the meaning of what you’re watching suddenly takes on a different light at the end of the film.
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Jean Rouch is such a hero of the Bioskop we’re going to do a whole event around his films in the future…