Jan Bucquoy (b. November 16, 1945) is an anarchist and author-filmmaker born in Harelbeke, Belgium. November 16 is the 320th day of the year (321st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 45 days remaining. ... 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday. ... Anarchism is a generic term describing various political philosophies and social movements that advocate the elimination of hierarchy and imposed authority. ... Harelbeke is a municipality located in the Belgian province of West Flanders. ...

After his studies in Strassburg (theatre) and Brussels (Insas) he started his career as an author of about 50 comics: ((Daniel) Jaunes, Le Bal du Rat Mort (1986), Retour au pays noir, Alain Moreau, etc...). With his producer Francis De Smet he made his much acclaimed series of The Sexual Life of the Belgians (with the famous trilogy) which includes 10 movies and documentaries about the whereabouts of Belgian people from the period after the war until now: the surrealist Camping Cosmos (1996) with Lolo Ferrari and Jan Decleir, and with a parody (detournement) of Tintin and Snowy and of the play Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder by Bertolt Brecht; The Closing down of the Renault Factory at Vilvoorde Belgium (1998) as a Belgian version of Roger & Me (1989) by Michael Moore; Les Vacances de Noël with Noël Godin and Yolande Moreau (2005) etc... His movies are a mixture of French avant-garde cinéma in the fashion of Jean-Luc Godard (La Chinoise (1967)), Italian neo-realism (Roberto Rossellini) and the humanism of Rainer Werner Fassbinder (f.i. Satansbraten (1976), The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979)), of whom he directed some theatrical plays (f.i.:The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant during his university studies at Strassburg. Strasbourg townscape Strasbourg (German Straßburg, road to castle, Alsatian Strossburi) is the capital and principal city of the Alsace région of northeastern France. ... Nickname: Map showing the location of Brussels in Belgium Coordinates: Country Belgium Region Brussels-Capital Region Founded 979 Founded (Region) June 18, 1989 Government  - Mayor (Municipality) Freddy Thielemans Area  - Region 162 km²  (62. ... Francis De Smet, born Bruges December 3, 1963. ... A trilogy is a set of three works of art, usually literature or film, that are connected and can generally be seen as a single work as well as three individual ones. ... Surrealism is an artistic movement and an aesthetic philosophy that aims for the liberation of the mind by emphasizing the critical and imaginative powers of the subconscious. ... Camping Cosmos is the second comedy in the film trilogy The Sexual Life of the Belgians (of which La Vie sexuelle des Belges 1950-78 is the first part), starring Claude Semal, Lolo Ferrari, Noël Godin. ... Lolo Ferrari (March 4, 1962 - March 5, 2000) was a French dancer and actress billed as the woman with the largest breasts in the world. ... Jan Decleir (born February 14, 1946), is a prolific Belgian movie and stage actor born in Niel, Antwerp (Flanders, Belgium). ... Parody of Back to the Future In contemporary usage, a parody is a work that imitates another work in order to ridicule, ironically comment on, or poke some affectionate fun at the work itself, the subject of the work, the author or fictional voice of the parody, or another subject. ... In detournement, an artist reuses elements of well-known media to create a new work with a different message, often one opposed to the original. ... Tintin and Snowy (Tintin et Milou) Tintin and Snowy (original French language names: Tintin et Milou), a journalist and his canine companion, are a pair of adventurers who travel around the world in The Adventures of Tintin, a series of comic books drawn and written by the Belgian cartoonist Georges... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Roger & Me is a 1989 American documentary film directed and reported by independent filmmaker/journalist Michael Moore. ... Michael Francis Moore (born April 23, 1954) is an American political-activist, a film director, author, social commentator, and political humorist. ... // Noël Godin (born Liège, September 13, 1945) is a Belgian writer, critic, actor and notorious cream pie flinger or ‘entarteur’. Godin gained global attention in 1998 when his group ambushed Microsoft CEO Bill Gates in Brussels, pelting the software magnate with pies (an invention he made with his... Yolande Moreau (born February 27, 1953 in Brussels) is a Belgian comedian and film director. ... A work similar to Marcel Duchamps Fountain Avant garde (written avant-garde) is a French phrase, one of many French phrases used by English speakers. ... Film is a term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. ... Jean-Luc Godard (photograph by David Horvitz) Jean-Luc Godard (born 3 December 1930 in Paris) is a French filmmaker and one of the most influential members of the Nouvelle Vague, or French New Wave. Born in Paris to Franco-Swiss parents, he was educated in Nyon, later studying at... La Chinoise (1967) was a the thirteenth narrative feature film by French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard. ... Roberto Rossellini (May 8, 1906 - June 3, 1977), was an Italian film director. ... Humanism[1] is a broad category of ethical philosophies that affirm the dignity and worth of all people, based on the ability to determine right and wrong by appeal to universal human qualities—particularly rationalism. ... Rainer Werner Fassbinder (May 31, 1945 – June 10, 1982) was a German movie director, screenwriter and actor, one of the most important representatives of the New German Cinema. ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ... 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His protagonists include celebrities looking for love, having reminiscences of their lost mother. The term "sexual" in his first movie La vie sexuelle des Belges 1950-78 means affectionate. Influenced by the Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord, he considers living in the 21st century to be a permanent theatrical performance. His work renders ridiculous the false seriousness of the media and its 'stars' who act as collaborators of this system of massive distraction. This is the reason why he is an accomplice of the entarteur Noël Godin of major figures of business as Bill Gates, culture: Bernard-Henri Lévy and politics: Nicolas Sarkozy and that he celebrates his yearly coup d'état of Belgium as an art performance or happening just like his musée du slip. This does not mean that he takes politics seriously: his movie La vie politique des Belges (2002) with Benoit Poelvoorde for instance, makes fun of the two minuscule opposing political parties in the race for votes: Tarte, and Vivant with the Belgian millionaire Roland Duchâtelet. The Society of the Spectacle is a 1967 book by Guy Debord, which developed concepts relating to modern culture and commodity fetishism. ... Guy Ernest Debord (December 28, 1931, in Paris – November 30, 1994, in Champot) was a writer, film maker, hypergraphist and founding member of the groups Lettrist International and Situationist International (SI). ... Distraction is also a television game show: Distraction (game show) Distraction is the diverting of the attention of an individual or group from the chosen object of attention onto the source of distraction. ... At law, an accomplice is a person who actively participates in the commission of a crime, even though they take no part in the actual criminal offence. ... // Noël Godin (born Liège, September 13, 1945) is a Belgian writer, critic, actor and notorious cream pie flinger or ‘entarteur’. Godin gained global attention in 1998 when his group ambushed Microsoft CEO Bill Gates in Brussels, pelting the software magnate with pies (an invention he made with his... William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American entrepreneur and the co-founder, chairman, former chief software architect, and former CEO of Microsoft, the worlds largest software company. ... Bernard-Henri Lévy (born November 5, 1948 in Béni-Saf, Algeria) is a French intellectual and businessman. ... Nicolas Sarkozy   (born Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa on 28 January 1955 in Paris, France) is the President-Elect of France after defeating Socialist Party leader Ségolène Royal during the 2007 election. ... // A coup dÉtat (pronounced ), or simply coup, is the sudden overthrow of a government, often through illegal means by a part of the state establishment — mostly replacing just the high-level figures. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... A happening is a performance, event or situation meant to be considered as art. ... Beno t Poelvoorde Beno t Poelvoorde is a Belgian actor, born in Namur (Belgium) on September 22, 1964. ... Vivant is a small Belgian social liberal party founded by millionaire Roland Duchâtelet. ... Roland Duchâtelet is a millionaire businessman who turned his progressive liberal ideology into a political movement that he called Vivant. ...

His films contain many references to the psychoanalysis of Jacques Lacan and one of his movies has even taken a title by one of the books of the pupils of Lacan: La jouissance des hystériques by the psychiatrist Lucien Israël. He was influenced by the artist Marcel Mariën and the writer Raoul Vaneigem. Psychoanalysis is a family of psychological theories and methods based on the work of Sigmund Freud. ... Jacques Lacan Jacques-Marie-Émile Lacan (April 13, 1901 – September 9, 1981) was a French psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, and doctor. ... Marcel Mariën (1920 - 1993) was a Belgian surrealist, (later situationist), poet, essayist, photographer, filmmaker*, and maker of objects. ... Raoul Vaneigem (born 1934) is a Belgian writer and philosopher. ...

The Trilogy of "The Sexual Life of the Belgians". Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... A trilogy is a set of three works of art, usually literature or film, that are connected and can generally be seen as a single work as well as three individual ones. ...

Films

• La Vie sexuelle des Belges 1950-1978 (1994)
• Camping Cosmos (La vie sexuelle des Belges II) (1996)
• Crème et châtiment aka Entartement de Toscan du Plantier au festival de Cannes 1996 / Cream and Punishment (short film) (1997)
• Fermeture de l'usine Renault à Vilvoorde (1998)
• La Jouissance des hystériques (La vie sexuelle des Belges IV) (2000)
• Vrijdag Visdag / Friday Fishday (La vie sexuelle des Belges V) (2000)
• La vie politique des Belges: Tarte ou Vivant (2002)
• La société du spectacle et ses commentaires (La vie sexuelle des Belges VI) (2003)
• Les Vacances de Noël (2005)

Camping Cosmos is the second comedy in the film trilogy The Sexual Life of the Belgians (of which La Vie sexuelle des Belges 1950-78 is the first part), starring Claude Semal, Lolo Ferrari, Noël Godin. ...

External links

• Jan Bucquoy at the Internet Movie Database
• Transatlantic Films Belgium
• September 1998 Reuters article
• The Closing down of the Renault Factory at Vilvoorde Belgium
• La jouissance des hystériques at the Internet Movie Database
• Bibliography
• Le Bal du rat mort