EXPRMNTL

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…

Country:
Genre:

Documentary

Duration:

65 minutes

Year:

2016

Director:

Brecht Debackere

Cast:
Jonas Mekas

himself

Agnès Varda

herself

Harun Farocki

Himself

Birgit Hein

Herself

Jean-Jacques Lebel

Himself

Crew:
Brecht Debackere

Screenplay

Brecht Debackere

Director

Steven Dhoedt

Producer

Boris Debackere

Sound Designer

Steven Dhoedt

Camera Operator