Noël Godin
Date of birth: 1945-09-13
Place of birth: Liège, Belgium
Known for: Acting
Also known as:
Biography
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.
Movie Credits
En Marche vers l'Effondrement !
2023-03-08
Disappointed by leftists politics this last few years, PAP'40 of the Church of the Holy $aint Con$um
Cream and Punishment
1997-01-01
Noël Godin and his supporters throw a pie with cream into the face of Daniel Toscan du Plantier in t
The Political Life of the Belgians
2002-05-08
We follow the build-up and training of two opposite Belgian political parties. We see their leaders
Les Vacances de Noël
2005-06-01
Two men, fifty years young, seduce younger women at the Cannes Film Festival and are quite successfu
La société du spectacle et ses commentaires
2003-11-01
Director Jan Bucquoy has a bunch of actors read from the Guy Debord novel which shares the same titl
The Antics Roadshow
2011-08-13
The Antics Roadshow is a celebration of the pranksters, hoaxers, jokers, activists and stunt merchan
The Big Night
2012-06-06
An ageing punk-with-a-dog and his brother the conformist decide to get their revenge on a shopping m
Mad in Belgium
2022-06-29
A cinematographic “cadavre exquis”, whose entrails reveal the odd nature of a (un)certain Belgian ci
Mais qui est donc Jean-Pierre Bouyxou?
2006-01-01
Television segment for Canal+, with Noël Godin
Le sexe enragé
1970-09-16
A bourgeoisie client is transformed into a mouse and cannibalized by a prostitute in flagrante delic
Wallonie 2084
2004-01-01
Grand Prix
1966-12-21
The most daring drivers in the world have gathered to compete for the 1966 Formula One championship.
La vie sexuelle des Belges partie 4 - La jouissance des hystériques
2000-08-30
Jan Bucquoy, a filmmaker, is confronted with the failure of his romantic and ideological life. To ga
Satan Bouche un Coin
1968-05-04
The film is a series of images, shown in short takes (anywhere from a few frames to 30 seconds), of
La vie sexuelle des Belges partie 2 - Camping Cosmos
1996-06-19
On a Belgian beach at Camping Cosmos. The delegate send by the Ministry is confronted with sex and m
Dans l’ère du temps
Painting with Falls
1997-01-01
A journey inside a picture thus offers the opportunity to travel through Belgium at the approach of
Grève et pets
1975-01-01
Boudou prend son bain
1991-01-21
Le journal de Joseph M.
2000-02-15
2 ou 3 choses que je sais de Joseph Morder
2007-11-01
Cinématon
1978-12-20
Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest
Tout est calme
2000-01-12
A secret society, somewhere in France, is responsible for the major unsolved murder mysteries throug
Cinématon XXII
1982-06-07
Reel 22 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.
Easy in Mind
1989-07-05
A woman who only has a couple of months left to live decides to go on a final journey, crossing seve
Cinématon n°214 : Noël Godin
1982-06-07
Homo Cinematographicus
1998-06-01
Homo Cinematographicus is a human species whose unit of measurement and point of reference is the ci
Royal Palace
2005-11-23
Eugenia is the queen of an imaginary European country. When her husband dies, quite unexpectedly, th
Henri
2013-12-04
The meeting of two lonely, marginal souls. There is Henri, a man in his 50s, limp, resigned, somewha
Peccato
1997-01-01
A mystic road movie and tells the story of il signore Peccato, an architect in the Middle Ages, and