Three no-budget semi-professional filmmakers finally get their due in this witty but respectful documentary. Director Frederic Sojcher visits three fellow Belgian auteurs whose ambitions outstrip their budgets, or their recognition. Max Naveaux is a projectionist who decided to take a stab at making movies himself, putting together small-scale war films whose realism was heightened by the fact that the Belgian Ministry of Defense gave him permission to use real bullets for one of his movies. Schoolteacher Jacques Hardy has dabbled in creating film noir, costume horror, and comic-book adventures, most starring his friend Christian Vranken, who makes his living as a church caretaker and insists on casting approval for his female co-stars. And Jean-Jacques Rousseau is a self-styled surrealist whose commitment to obscurity is great enough that he insists on being interviewed while wearing a ski mask.
Documentary produced and broadcast in the show "Court Circuit" on Arte.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau is a Belgian independent filmmaker and self-proclaimed "filmmaker of the absurd". Defending a cinema based on limited budgets, ranging from €2,000 to €2,500 per film, with non-professional actors. Having made around 40 films, he is considered to be among the most productive Belgian filmmakers.he is one of the most prolific Belgian filmmakers.
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