Monday 1st of December, Goldsmiths - Joram Ten Brink on the Cinema of Jean Rouch

Discovering Jean Rouch work- early works in Africa and their impact on film making in Europe ( incl. screening of extracts from Rouch's major film productions in West Africa)

Joram ten Brink is a filmmaker and a Professor of Film at the University of
Westminster. He works as a writer/director of documentary and experimental films in the UK and Holland. His films have been broadcasted and theatrically released in the UK, USA, Holland, Israel, France, Germany and Spain. His work has been screened at the Berlin and Rotterdam film festivals and at MOMA in New York. Prof. ten Brink heads the practice based PhD programme in Arts and Design at the University of Westminster and is the director of Centre for Production and Research in Documentary film. In 2004 he organised a major international conference and a programme of screenings on the work of the French anthropologist and filmmaker Jean Rouch. In 2007 he edited the first major book on Rouch's work in English – Building Bridges- the cinema of Jean Rouch (Wallflower Press, London).
http://www.wmin.ac.uk/mad/page-1163