Film

EXPRMNTL

2016 · 1h 5m · Documentary

IMDb

8.0

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

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

• Brecht DebackereDirector · Screenplay
• Steven DhoedtProducer
• Beppe LeonettiEditor

EXPRMNTL trailer

Release date

October 8, 2016

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 5m

Genres

Documentary

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