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Jean Rouch / 让·鲁什 · 1967

Jaguar

Jaguar

Participants narrate and perform their journey after the fact, making filmmakers and characters become other through the story.

Film details

Original title
Jaguar
Director
Jean Rouch / 让·鲁什
Year
1967
Region
France / Niger / Ghana
Reading attribution: Atlas editorial synthesis · Sources and locators

Close-reading questions

  1. 01
    As Damouré, Lam, and Illo migrate, they invent names and experiences for themselves. Which narratives are triggered by filming, and which come from inherited colonial identities?
  2. 02
    How do voice-over, improvisation, and street observation make the figures both people in lived life and film characters in the process of becoming?
  3. 03
    The return at the end does not restore the starting point: which relations, jokes, and reciprocal tellings have changed the group's speaking position?

Analysis and scene sources

Shots and scenes

Primary texts, scholarship, and locators

Theory coordinate: Cinema 2, ch. 6, pp. 151–152

  1. 01
    Cinema 2: The Time-Image

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