EXPRMNTL
08/10/2016
1h 5m

Knokke, Belgium. A small mundane coastal town, home to the beau-monde. To compete with Venice and Cannes, the posh casino hosts the second ‘World Festival of Film and the Arts’ in 1949, organised in part by the Royal Cinematheque of Belgium. To celebrate cinema’s 50 year existence, they put together a side program showcasing the medium in all its shapes and forms: surrealist film, absolute film, dadaist films, abstract film,… The side program would soon become a festival in its own right: ‘EXPRMNTL’, dedicated to experimental cinema, and would become a mythical gathering of the avant-garde…
Cast


Jonas Mekas
himself


Agnès Varda
herself


Harun Farocki
Himself
Birgit Hein
Herself


Jean-Jacques Lebel
Himself
Boris Lehman
Himself


Eric de Kuyper
Himself


Roland Lethem
Himself


Werner Nekes
Himself
Godfried-Willem Raes
Himself


Michael Snow
Himself
Robert Stéphane
Himself
Jaques Ledoux
Himself (archive)
Gabrielle Claes
Herself


Peter Kubelka
himself
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