Biography

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 La vie sexuelle des Belges 1950-1978 (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.
- IMDb mini biography by: Bazza the Beast

He used to be a professional soccer player