Manthia Diawara's Rouch in Reverse: an interstitial perspective.

Critical Arts | January 1, 1999| | Copyright

MORE THAN FORTY years ago Jean Rouch more or less initiated a form of ethnographic cinematography called cinema verite whose goal was to let the cinematic subjects of ethnographic films speak for themselves. He wanted to make films about Africans in which the filmmaker would yield the control over what would go into the film to the Africans he was filming. They would not just collaborate with him, they would take over the direction of what would be filmed and spoken. Rouch saw himself as a kind of griot or medium who would enter into the spirit of the culture--in the event, that ...

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