EXPRMNTL
October 8, 2016
1h 5m
Documentary
Overview
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…
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Cast
Jonas Mekas
himself
Agnès Varda
herself
Harun Farocki
HimselfB
Birgit Hein
Herself
Jean-Jacques Lebel
Himself
Boris Lehman
Himself
Eric de Kuyper
Himself
Roland Lethem
Himself
Werner Nekes
HimselfG
Godfried-Willem Raes
Himself
Michael Snow
HimselfR
Robert Stéphane
HimselfJ
Jaques Ledoux
Himself (archive)G
Gabrielle Claes
Herself
Peter Kubelka
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