Jean Rouch

CHRONICLE OF A SUMMER: PARIS, 1960 (CHRONIQUE D’UN ETE), 1960, 90 min. Dirs. Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin. In the summer of 1960, Edgar Morin, a sociologist, and Jean Rouch conducted an enquiry into the daily lives of young Parisians in an attempt to understand their concept of happiness.

MOSSO, MOSSO, JEAN ROUCH – LET’S PRETEND, 1998, 78 min. Dir. Jean-André Fieschi. This core of this encounter with Jean Rouch lies in the appropriateness of the “comme si” - “let’s pretend”, in which he describes what has become for him both a rule to live by and a rule to make films by: “By pretending something is true, you get much closer to reality”.