Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (December 16, 1946 – November 5, 2014) was a Belgian absurdist independent film director. He was born in Souvret, Belgium (Courcelles) and died in Montigny-le-Tilleul. He shot his films with very small budgets (€2000 to 2500 per film) and used unknown or non-professional actors. He called himself the director of the absurd and always fiercely protected his anonymity by masking his face during his public appearances. He shot over 50 films making him one of Belgium's most prolific film directors.

His life was supposed to be the subject of a Yann Moix film, called Palme d'or, starring Benoît Poelvoorde. The project was not filmed. Moix did make, without Poelvoorde, the disastrous . Frédéric Sojcher's film , also known as Born to Film, was selected and shown at the Cannes Film Festival in 2004, is dedicated to Rousseau's work as well as Max Naveaux's and Jacques Hardy's.

Filmography Igor Yaboutich (1964) Le Poignard maudit (1965) Les Malfaiteurs (1966) La Vallée de la Sûre (1966) L'Abstrait (1968) Le Cauchemar (1969) Germaine Grandieu (1972) Les Compagnons de justice (1974) Le Reposoir (1975) Les Immortels (1975) Catalepsie (1976) L'étoile du mal (1977) Dossier Réincarnation (1977) Les Marcheurs de la grande armée (1978) The Diabolical Dr. Flak (1978) L'histoire du cinéma 16 (1983) Cannes année européenne du cinéma (1988) Ciné effet (1988) Massacre au pied de biche Les Incubes d'Escargnole Xeno-Zenit Furor Teutonicus (1999) Road Movie (2001) Wallonie 2084 (2003) Irkutz 88 (2004) La Revanche du sacristain cannibale (2004) Le Chasseur de succubes (2005) La mécanique du rasoir (2006) L'invasion des succubes (2006) L'amputeur wallon (2011) 1er juillet chez Olga (2011) Le Couturier (2014) Docteur Loiseau : la solution finale (2014)