The read
It runs a compact 1h 5m.
Synopsis
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…
Ratings
IMDb8/10
Key crew
- Brecht DebackereScreenplay
- Brecht DebackereDirector
Cast
- Jonas Mekashimself
- Agnès Vardaherself
- Harun FarockiHimself
- Birgit HeinHerself
- Jean-Jacques LebelHimself
- Boris LehmanHimself
- Eric de KuyperHimself
- Roland LethemHimself
- Werner NekesHimself
- Godfried-Willem RaesHimself
- Michael SnowHimself
- Robert StéphaneHimself
Stills
Themes
avant-garde