Etnografik Belgeselde Jean Rouch’un Sinema Pratiği: Etno-Kurmaca
Cinema Practice of Jean Rouch on Etnographic Documentary: Etno-Fiction

Summary/Abstract: In this study, the ethno-fiction type of cinema practice that French director Jean Rouch experienced and theorized under the influence of his anthropologist identity is analyzed. The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of ethno-fiction, which is defined by the director as the only way to penetrate the reality, on the ethnographic documentary film production stylistically and contextually. In this context, cultural and cinematic concepts are explained through the Jaguar film directed by Jean Rouch and the innovations that have been introduced to the ethnographic film making process are mentioned. How the boundary between fictional and nonfiction is structured by camera, cameraman, ethnographic subject and concepts is explained in this study. Cultural concepts have an important place in Rouch's cinema. The ethnographic relationship with “the other” in Rouch’s cinema makes the sound of characters as much as the director. In the film process, the subjects in the position of “the other” are transformed by the collaboration within the film and a form of improvisation emerges. Ethno-fictional documentary gives a different perspective to the representation of reality by softening the strict boundaries formed by the “real” element of the film. He leaves the interpretation of reality to the characters of the film and the audience. As a result of the research, it is seen that the story and the film have reached the audience by creating their own reality with the experiences they have implemented in the ethno-fiction genre of Jean Rouch.

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