Jean Rouch: C/D, S/D

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I'm heading to Moi, Un Noir tonight and was wondering if anyone here has seen Rouch films besides 1961's Chronicle of a Summer, or what anyone thought about him. He made over 100 films, most of them in Africa (or so I gather), and I've only seen Chronicle, though it was enough to make me want to seek out every other one.

Here's my tribute:
http://babelogue.citypages.com:8080/pscholtes/2004/11/19

And here's a great tribute site:
http://babelogue.citypages.com:8080/pscholtes/2004/11/19

― Pete Scholtes, Sunday, 21 November 2004 21:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I too will be attending Moi, un noir tonight and intend to also see Chronicle of a Summer. I'm as excited to see these as I am to see anything right now. (The Leopard will have to be soon, too. Maybe Monday...)

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Sunday, 21 November 2004 23:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Moi, Un Noir was really interesting, not as elating as Chronicle, mainly because (like Jaguar, I fear) it didn't have synch-sound. Rouch got an Ivory Coast guy and his friends to narrate the footage of them. But what footage: Any Afro-pop fan will love this--night life and leisure time in the Ivory Coast in the late 1950s. That's one case where Rouch got the recording synched, apparently, was in any music scene... And the scene of the people doing tricks on bicylcles is remarkable, too. Freestyling before its time?

― Pete Scholtes, Monday, 22 November 2004 18:58 (twenty-one years ago)

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