Afryka Roucha. Mimikra – podmiotowość – sprawczość
Rouch’s Africa. Mimicry – Subjectivity – Agency

Summary/Abstract: Jean Rouch (d. 2004) is regarded as one of the most important filmmakers-anthropologists active for more than half a century. His works have become the theme of assorted thorough assessments. The presented text attempts to refer to a part of his variegated oeuvre and shows (also via the film) Rouch’s relations with his friends and co-workers. From a certain perspective it can be said that owing to the critical reaction to his first important film, Les Maîtres fous (1956), Rouch began to develop assorted strategies of relations involving him (filmmaker and anthropologist) and his protagonists. He favoured their adroitness (agency) but at times symbolically (and theoretically) went over to their side. This took place in particular when Rouch developed the conception of various forms of the trance (ciné-transe) shared by the filmmaker at different stages of shooting a film. Those strategies match well the postulate of the contemporaneity (coevalness) of the researcher and the researched (Johannes Fabien).

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