Polityczna apolityczność Jeana Roucha. Film jako katalizator zmian
Political apoliticism of Jean Rouch. Film as a catalyst of change

Author(s): Sławomir Sikora
Subject(s): Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Africa; anthropology; ethnofiction; film; Jean Rouch; Oumarou Ganda; politics; agency
Summary/Abstract: The text focuses on the “politics” of Jean Rouch (French filmmaker and anthropologist), which was reflected in the sphere of action rather than declarations. One of the main issues discussed is the empowerment of his African friends, collaborators and actors. The author concludes that enhancing their agency was, in fact, a complex and difficult process. The author claims that the fact that Oumarou Ganda – a migrant worker, the main actor in Moi, un Noir, and then one of the first African film directors – distanced himself from the film made together with Rouch as well as from Rouch himself (thus “freeing himself” from the colonial and hierarchical relationship) one can read as Rouch’s biggest (though probably unintentional) “political” success.

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