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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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
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Brecht Debackere · Director, Screenplay
Beppe Leonetti · Editor
Steven Dhoedt · Producer
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