On the Belgian coast in the summer of '86, Jan Bucquoy and a bevy of former 1968 intellectuals try to bring the working class nearer to art and culture (or vice versa).

In the sand dunes where Camping Cosmos is set, one follows the merry escapades of campers, football fans, "dandy poets", unsatisfied women, frustrated performers and a whole little world struggling happily with the tragedies of daily life in the immensity of the Cosmos.

In short, can one reconcile football with surrealism, avante garde art with radio talent contests, the needs of the heart with the needs of sex, Marx with Merckx?

Well, of course you can!

Jan Bucquoy studied Literature at Grenoble, Philoshophy at Ghent, Filmmaking at Brussels (INSAS) and political science at Strasburg. He left a successful career as a comic book author (translated into more than 25 different languages) and turned to writing screenplays and directing feature films. Camping Cosmos (1996) is his second feature length film, the first being The Sexual Life of Belgians (1994).