Jan Bucquoy

Jan Bucquoy is an anarchist and author-filmmaker born in Harelbeke, Belgium who started as a theatre practitioner and who worked as a cartoon-scriptwriter. 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). With his producer Francis de Smet he made his much acclaimed series of The Sex Life of the Belgians (1994) (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 Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht; Fermeture de l'usine Renault à Vilvoorde (La vie sexuelle des Belges, 3e partie) (1999) as a Belgian version of Roger & Me (1989) by Michael Moore; Les vacances de Noël (2005) with Noël Godin and Yolande Moreau.