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…
Brecht Debackere
Director
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
Seduced and Abandoned61%
Daft Punk Unchained71%
Hitchcock/Truffaut72%
Directed by John Ford70%
A Plastic Ocean75%
Lionel Messi: Destiny78%
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home67%
The Last Waltz76%
Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition86%
The Class of ‘9271%
John Candy: I Like Me78%
The Velvet Underground67%
The September Issue65%
Looking for Richard68%
Stop Making Sense83%
Above Majestic73%
Room 23761%
Fuck64%
Cuadecuc, vampir61%
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
