Noël Godin

Noël Godin

Born: September 13, 1945
in Liège, Belgium
Noël Godin (born 13 September 1945) is a Belgian writer, critic, actor and notorious pie thrower or entarteur. Godin gained global attention in 1998 when his group ambushed Microsoft CEO Bill Gates in Brussels, pelting the software magnate with a pie. After bombarding Gates, Godin allegedly said, "My work is done here."

Godin insists he is non-violent and is careful to use only what he calls a "tarte classique", filled with whipped cream and perhaps a little chocolate in soft sponge cake. He says his humor can be traced back through Jerry Lewis, Wile E. Coyote, the Marx Brothers and yippies like Abbie Hoffman.

Godin is inspired (for instance in his Anthologie de la subversion carabinée (1989)) by the works of the Utopian philosophers Tommaso Campanella (Civitas Solis) and Charles Fourier (La Phalange, Le Phalanstère). His ideal society is one where there is no struggle for power or money and where everybody can live in a state of perfect happiness. He is also an admirer of the anarchist Ravachol without approving his violence, sentiment which inspired him to his pie-attacks.

Godin has a particularly colourful way of expressing himself, using terms like "tempêtes patissières" (pastry storm) to describe his pieing.

Source: Article "Noël Godin" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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En Marche vers l'Effondrement !
Title: En Marche vers l'Effondrement !
Character: Mr Sweet
Released: March 8, 2023
Type: Movie
Disappointed by leftists politics this last few years, PAP'40 of the Church of the Holy $aint Con$umption decide to run for presidential election of 2022 to fix the country. He meets his electorate and other candidates to spread the word : Work, Obey, Consume !
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Mad in Belgium
Title: Mad in Belgium
Released: June 29, 2022
Type: Movie
A cinematographic “cadavre exquis”, whose entrails reveal the odd nature of a (un)certain Belgian cinema. Authors, directors, actors who have proved that imposture could be an act of creation. Convinced that any so-called “new” cinematographic production was in fact a rehash of what had already been made, these pirates of images snuck as forgers, liars, tricksters, usurpers, … Outlaws of the cinema who falsified its form. From the filmed imposture of Man Bites Dog to Jan Bucquoy’s fabulist biopic, everything participates in the dynamiting of institutional language through simulacrum and absurdity. This free journey in the “cine-belgitude” has for vocation to approach these marvellous eccentrics followers of a overexcited and stripping situationism.
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The Big Night
Title: The Big Night
Character: Le marié
Released: June 6, 2012
Type: Movie
An ageing punk-with-a-dog and his brother the conformist decide to get their revenge on a shopping mall. Directing duo Benoit Delepine and Gustave Kervern, longstanding comic crusaders against capitalism, again set out to surprise and shock the bourgeois audience.
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The Antics Roadshow
Title: The Antics Roadshow
Character: Himself
Released: August 13, 2011
Type: Movie
The Antics Roadshow is a celebration of the pranksters, hoaxers, jokers, activists and stunt merchants who use public space for their own unauthorised ends. This film brings together a wide range of individuals with all sorts of motivations, who have all hijacked the public arena to make a noise, be it for comedic, artistic or political ends, and have all done so using a variety of illicit and eccentric methods, which the audience should probably not try at home.
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2 ou 3 choses que je sais de Joseph Morder
Title: 2 ou 3 choses que je sais de Joseph Morder
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: November 1, 2007
Type: Movie
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Mais qui est donc Jean-Pierre Bouyxou?
Title: Mais qui est donc Jean-Pierre Bouyxou?
Character: Himself - Host
Released: January 1, 2006
Type: Movie
Television segment for Canal+, with Noël Godin
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Les Vacances de Noël
Title: Les Vacances de Noël
Character: Noël
Released: June 1, 2005
Type: Movie
Two men, fifty years young, seduce younger women at the Cannes Film Festival and are quite successful as long as there are no youngsters among them.
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Wallonie 2084
Title: Wallonie 2084
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: Movie
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La société du spectacle et ses commentaires
Title: La société du spectacle et ses commentaires
Character: Self
Released: November 1, 2003
Type: Movie
Director Jan Bucquoy has a bunch of actors read from the Guy Debord novel which shares the same title. Slowly but surely real life an Debord's reflections upon it start to diffuse.
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The Political Life of the Belgians
Title: The Political Life of the Belgians
Character: L'entarteur
Released: May 8, 2002
Type: Movie
We follow the build-up and training of two opposite Belgian political parties. We see their leaders during meetings, during voting and after when the results of the elections are published.
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La vie sexuelle des Belges partie 4 - La jouissance des hystériques
Title: La vie sexuelle des Belges partie 4 - La jouissance des hystériques
Released: August 30, 2000
Type: Movie
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Le journal de Joseph M.
Title: Le journal de Joseph M.
Character: Man throw a pie in Brussels
Released: February 15, 2000
Type: Movie
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Tout est calme
Title: Tout est calme
Character: Porte
Released: January 12, 2000
Type: Movie
A secret society, somewhere in France, is responsible for the major unsolved murder mysteries throughout history (such as Henri IV, Lincoln, Kennedy, John-Paul I)...
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Title: Mr. Manatane's Notebooks
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: TV
Poetry lovers, defenders of good taste, dear hunters... you are here at home! Find Benoit Poelvorde at the top of his madness in the complete "Carnets de Mr Manatane". More than 7 hours of knowing how to live (or die) by Mr Manatane!
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Painting with Falls
Title: Painting with Falls
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
A journey inside a picture thus offers the opportunity to travel through Belgium at the approach of the 21st century, and also to bring up a host of questions an what the eye sees: what do we see disappearing under our very eye? Why do we look at specific things? What is a point of view?
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Cream and Punishment
Title: Cream and Punishment
Character: Le Gloupier
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
Noël Godin and his supporters throw a pie with cream into the face of Daniel Toscan du Plantier in the Palace of the Film Festival of Cannes 1996.
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La vie sexuelle des Belges partie 2 - Camping Cosmos
Title: La vie sexuelle des Belges partie 2 - Camping Cosmos
Character: Pierre Mertens
Released: June 19, 1996
Type: Movie
On a Belgian beach at Camping Cosmos. The delegate send by the Ministry is confronted with sex and murder. The residents enjoy their holidays in a peculiar way...
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Boudou prend son bain
Title: Boudou prend son bain
Released: January 21, 1991
Type: Movie
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Easy in Mind
Title: Easy in Mind
Character: Le bavard
Released: July 5, 1989
Type: Movie
A woman who only has a couple of months left to live decides to go on a final journey, crossing several countries.
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Cinématon XXII
Title: Cinématon XXII
Character: N°214
Released: June 7, 1982
Type: Movie
Reel 22 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.
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Cinématon
Title: Cinématon
Character: N°214
Released: December 20, 1978
Type: Movie
Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 silent vignettes (cinématons), each 3 minutes and 25 seconds long, of various celebrities, artists, journalists and friends of the director, each doing whatever they want for the allotted time. Subjects of the film include directors Barbet Schroeder, Nagisa Oshima, Volker Schlöndorff, Ken Loach, Benjamin Cuq, Youssef Chahine, Wim Wenders, Joseph Losey, Jean-Luc Godard, Samuel Fuller and Terry Gilliam, chess grandmaster Joël Lautier, and actors Roberto Benigni, Stéphane Audran, Julie Delpy and Lesley Chatterley. Gilliam is featured eating a 100-franc note, while Fuller smokes a cigar. Courant's favourite subject was a 7-month-old baby. The film was screened in its then-entirety in Avignon in November 2009 and was screened in Redondo Beach, CA on April 9, 2010.
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Title: Apostrophes
Character: Self
Released: January 10, 1975
Type: TV
Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bernard Pivot. It ran for fifteen years (724 episodes) from January 10, 1975, to June 22, 1990, and was one of the most watched shows on French television (around 6 million regular viewers). It was broadcast on Friday nights on the channel France 2 (which was called "Antenne 2" from 1975 to 1992). The hourlong show was devoted to books, authors and literature. The format varied between one-on-one interviews with a single author and open discussions between four or five authors.
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Grève et pets
Title: Grève et pets
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
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Le sexe enragé
Title: Le sexe enragé
Character: Le curé
Released: September 16, 1970
Type: Movie
A bourgeoisie client is transformed into a mouse and cannibalized by a prostitute in flagrante delicto with the camera changing focus in time to her breathing.
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Satan Bouche un Coin
Title: Satan Bouche un Coin
Released: May 4, 1968
Type: Movie
The film is a series of images, shown in short takes (anywhere from a few frames to 30 seconds), of more or less fetishistic imagery (something Bouyxou was particularly fond of). After a credit and title sequence written on naked human flesh, the viewer sees the brilliant Molinier standing sanctimoniously in front of a screen. Soon he is joined by a woman, and he fondles her breasts while retaining his signature grin. Molinier seems to almost be the 'ringmaster' of the incidents, with almost every minute episode cutting back to him. His presence is one thing that makes this film remarkable; the same sort of aura that exists in Moliniers famous self-portraits and cut-ups is present here, on screen. (esotika.blogspot.com)
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Grand Prix
Title: Grand Prix
Character: Spectator (Spa) (uncredited)
Released: December 21, 1966
Type: Movie
The most daring drivers in the world have gathered to compete for the 1966 Formula One championship. After a spectacular wreck in the first of a series of races, American wheelman Pete Aron is dropped by his sponsor. Refusing to quit, he joins a Japanese racing team. While juggling his career with a torrid love affair involving an ex-teammate's wife, Pete must also contend with Jean-Pierre Sarti, a French contestant who has previously won two world titles.
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Cinématon n°214 : Noël Godin
Title: Cinématon n°214 : Noël Godin
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie