"This man who reinvented the fairground cinema of the heroic ages, this self-taught, multi-talented man likes to cultivate the controversial and is not afraid to “push the envelope." As a film producer, screenwriter, director and distributor of his own films, he is radically autocratic (...). He dares to do what no Godard, Resnais, Fellini or Warhol ever would.”
— Jean-Pierre Bouyxou

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (who has 39 films to his credit, including 4 full-length feature films) always appears masked in public and refers to himself as the “film-maker of the absurd.”

This book, co-ordinated by Frédéric Sojcher, explores his career and invites readers to enjoy an “ABC” of this type of cinema – an authentic surrealist anthology with a collection of accounts by various contributors.

Film-maker Frédéric Sojcher heads a Masters programme in screen writing and film direction and production at Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne.