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
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
Werner Nekes
as Himself
Godfried-Willem Raes
as Himself
Michael Snow
as Himself
Robert Stéphane
as Himself
