Mr Rouch, for example, approves, and Mr Leacock disapproves, of staging events for a documentary.

ECONOMIST: Richard Leacock

Peter Rouch QC urged the jury to acquit Bowen on the grounds of diminished responsibility.

BBC: Man murdered his sleeping stepson

"Robert Gardner took it out of that super-dry realm and put it in a more poetic form, " said Mr. Mayet, who also took inspiration from filmmakers like Werner Herzog and Jean Rouch.

WSJ: Repertory Film: External Influences

Rouch meets with white colonial French high-school students and their black African classmates (all nonactors) as he persuades them to improvise a drama about efforts to bring the two mutually wary groups together socially.

NEWYORKER: The Human Pyramid

In subsequent films, Rouch pushed the idea of self-dramatization to more radical ends by working onscreen with his subjects to develop their personae, but here he embeds his illuminating psychosocial speculations in a straightforward documentary essay.

NEWYORKER: Les Maitres Fous