Art of the body, art of the double: a dimension of the imaginary in Jean Rouch

  • Marcius Freire Universidade Estadual de Campinas-UNICAMP, Instituto de Artes, Departamento de Cinema-DECINE.13083-854, Campinas-SP
  • Philippe Lourdou Université Paris Nanterre - 92000 Nanterre
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14591/aniki.v7n2.655
Keywords: Jean Rouch, double, body, imaginary, cine-trance, shared anthropology

Abstract

Jean Rouch's ethnographic cinema has an irrevocable impact on the documentary film history. Its most salient specificities are due both to his mise-en-scène strategies and to his own insertion among the people he filmed. These procedures have the effect of producing doubles through which, according to him, the dimension of the imaginary could be accessed. Guided by some Rouch's filmic and written works, we will follow these ideas in order to examine his particular way of thinking cinema itself.

Author Biographies

Marcius Freire, Universidade Estadual de Campinas-UNICAMP, Instituto de Artes, Departamento de Cinema-DECINE.13083-854, Campinas-SP

Graduate in Études Cinématographiques et Audio-visuelles (1978) and Arts Plastiques (1979) from Université Paris VIII - Vincennes, Master degree in Cinéma from Université Paris VIII - Vincennes (1980) and PhD in Cinematographie from Université Paris X - Nanterre (1985). Has experience in Comunication, focusing on Arts and Communication, and on the following subjects: Cinema, Documentary, Filmic Anthropology, Visual Anthropology and Photography.

Philippe Lourdou, Université Paris Nanterre - 92000 Nanterre

Formation de Recherches Cinématographiques. Master “Cinéma anthropologique et documentaire” at  Université Paris Nanterre.

Published
2020-07-14
Issue
Vol 7 No 2 (2020): Filmmakers’ theory: an approach to the study of cinema
Section
Special Section