- Description:
- DVD - Region 2.   viewing copy.   4 videodiscs of 4.
color.  
fullscreen.   sound - Dolby Digital monaural.  
Titles
+ Maîtres Fous, Les
- Alternate Title:
- The Mad Masters
- Director:
- Rouch, Jean
- Production Co:
- Films de la Pléiade; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
- Running Time:
- Short.   28 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby Digital monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1955
- Language:
- French
- Genre:
- Ethnographic, Documentary
- Notes:
- Sound. In French. No subtitles. An account of the religious practice of the Hauka cult, which developed in the late 1920s in the Upper Niger region. During ceremonies initiates become possessed by spirits which reflect the hierarchy of colonial authority (the Governor-General, the Admiral, etc.). The film records a ceremony in which a dog is ritually sacrificed and eaten.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Mammy Water
- Director:
- Rouch, Jean
- Production Co:
- Films de la Pléiade
- Running Time:
- Short.   18 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby Digital monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1956
- Language:
- French
- Genre:
- Ethnographic, Documentary
- Notes:
- Sound. In French. No subtitles. Shows aspects of the life of the Fanti people: fishing techniques; a funeral; a ceremony honoring the divinity of water, which opens the fishing season.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Tambours D’Avant / Tourou Et Bitti, Les
- Director:
- Rouch, Jean
- Running Time:
- Short.   9 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby Digital monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1972
- Language:
- French
- Genre:
- Ethnographic, Documentary
- Notes:
- Sound. In French. No subtitles.
+ Lion Hunters, The
- Alternate Title:
- Chasse Au Lion À L’Arc, La
- Director:
- Rouch, Jean
- Production Co:
- Films de la Pléiade; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
- Running Time:
- Feature.   77 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby Digital monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1967
- Language:
- French
- Genre:
- Ethnographic, Documentary
- Notes:
- Sound. In French. No subtitles. Documentary on the lion hunting Gows of the savannah south of Morocco. They are the descendents of the Songhai, who were driven back by Moroccan warriors in the 15th century and preserve the secret of poisoned arrows.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Lion Nommè L’Américain, Un
- Director:
- Rouch, Jean
- Production Co:
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; Films de la Pléiade
- Running Time:
- Short.   20 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby Digital monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1972
- Language:
- French
- Genre:
- Ethnographic, Documentary
- Notes:
- Sound. In French. No subtitles. A companion film to THE LION HUNTERS: “The American” is a name given to a lion wounded but not caught in the previous film.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Jaguar, Le
- Director:
- Rouch, Jean
- Production Co:
- Films de la Pléiade
- Running Time:
- Feature.   88 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby Digital monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1967
- Language:
- French
- Genre:
- Ethnographic, Documentary
- Notes:
- Sound. In French. No subtitles. The life of a fisherman from the Niger area who goes to Ghana and becomes affluent, but returns to his four wives to save them from starvation. “Jaguar” is a West African term for a sophisticated townboy.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Moi, Un Noir
- Alternate Title:
- Treichville; I, A Black
- Director:
- Rouch, Jean
- Production Co:
- Films de la Pléiade; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
- Running Time:
- Feature.   70 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby Digital monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1959
- Language:
- French
- Genre:
- Ethnographic, Documentary
- Notes:
- Sound. In French. No subtitles. A week in the life of Oumarou Ganda and his friends from the Niger who are working as casual laborers in the harbor at Abidjan in the Ivory Coast. In the film, Ganda adopts the pseudonym of classical Hollywood film star Edward G. Robinson.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Petit À Petit
- Director:
- Rouch, Jean
- Production Co:
- Films de la Pléiade; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; Comite Du Film Ethnographique
- Running Time:
- Feature.   92 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby Digital monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1971
- Language:
- French
- Genre:
- Ethnographic, Documentary
- Notes:
- Sound. In French. No subtitles. Damouré and Lam, two businessmen in present-day Africa, plan to build several-story houses in a village on the Niger.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Pyramide Humaine, La
- Director:
- Rouch, Jean
- Production Co:
- Films de la Pléiade
- Running Time:
- Feature.   88 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby Digital monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1961
- Language:
- French
- Genre:
- Ethnographic, Documentary
- Notes:
- Sound. In French. No subtitles. Set in a racially mixed school at Abidjan, the film shows how working together changes the students’ attitudes towards each other.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Jean Rouch Raconte À Pierre-André Boutang
- Director:
- uncredited
- Running Time:
- Feature.   104 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby Digital monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- France
- Language:
- French
- Genre:
- Documentary
- Notes:
- Sound. In French. No subtitles.
+ A Propos De Jean Rouch, Conversation Bernard Surugue Patrick Leboutte
- Director:
- uncredited
0 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby Digital monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1930
- Language:
- French
- Genre:
- Documentary
- Notes:
- Sound. In French. No subtitles.
+ Double D’Hier A Rencontré Demain, Le
- Director:
- Riolon, Luc; Surugue, Bernard
- Running Time:
- Short.   10 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby Digital monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 2004
- Language:
- French
- Genre:
- Documentary
- Notes:
- Sound. In French. No subtitles.
+ Veuves De 15 Ans, Les
- Director:
- Rouch, Jean
- Running Time:
- Short.   24 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby Digital monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1965
- Language:
- French
- Genre:
- Ethnographic, Documentary
- Notes:
- Sound. In French. No subtitles.