

08/10/2016
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…

Jonas Mekas
as himself

Agnès Varda
as herself

Harun Farocki
as Himself

Birgit Hein
as Herself

Jean-Jacques Lebel
as Himself

Boris Lehman
as Himself

Eric de Kuyper
as Himself

Roland Lethem
as Himself

Werner Nekes
as Himself

Godfried-Willem Raes
as Himself

Michael Snow
as Himself

Robert Stéphane
as Himself

Jaques Ledoux
as Himself (archive)

Gabrielle Claes
as Herself

Peter Kubelka
as himself
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