FRIENDS, FOOLS, FAMILY

ROUCH'S COLLABORATORS IN NIGER

Anne Mette Jørgensen, Berit Madsen
Denmark 2005 | 83 Min. | DV Cam, OmeU

In 2003 Berit Madsen und Anne Mette Jør­gensen went to Niger to make a film with Damouré Zika, Moussa Hami­dou and Tallou Mouzourane, Rouch’s col­lab­o­ra­tors. The film­mak­ers had seen them in numer­ous films that they had made togeth­er with the famous French anthro­pol­o­gist and film­mak­er Jean Rouch, over a period of more than fifty years. They were curi­ous to learn how Rouch’s friends in Niger had expe­ri­enced all these years of work­ing with him and the cinema. This film was record­ed in 2003. Rouch died one year later on a desert road in Niger.