Jean Rouch Movies

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

In the village of Simiri, Niger, fisherman Daouda is also a priest of the cult of Dongo, the god of Thunder for the Songhay people. He tells the...

Funeral rituals for the traditional leader Moro Naba of the Mossi at Ougadougou, Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso). Election ceremonies for his...

Scene of possession during a ceremony to appeal for rain in Niger.

A film by Jean Rouch.

The story of an American drama teacher who after writing a thesis on Dionysus tries to combine Dionysian rites with the work at a car factory, in an...

A film by Jean Rouch.

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