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Cycle Sigui, Capturing of the Myth
Kohoutová, Rozálie ; Kubica, Petr (advisor) ; Kubica, Petr (referee)
Jean Rouch is one of the major representative of cinéma verité movement, which was born in France in the sixties (in USA and Canada is know under the expression cinema direct). Rouch was his hole life interested in the issue of post colonialism. In Africa and in Paris he shoot many documentary and fiction films, and in these he achieves desirable authenticity of the film material, which is the basic presumption of cinéma vérité. This interest in the authenticity of film and a manifestation of shooting mechanisms is also the main principle of the French New Vague in general.
This thesis is basically about the work of Jean Rouch, but it?s main topic are the films Sigui, which Rouch had been filming from 1966 till 1974 at the Dogon tribe in African state Mali. Eight films capture the eight years ritual of death and naissance, which the Dogons repeat once in sixty years. Even this material isn?t very comprehensible for the European audience, it?s obvious, there is something magic and subconsciously important hidden in this material. In the thesis I try to explain, why in my opinion, Jean Rouch had been closer to the true, than is even possible in the therms of cinéma vérité.
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