HDEXPRMNTL
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…
Cast
Cast

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
You may also like

Avatar: Creating the World of Pandora

Seduced and Abandoned

Avatar: The Deep Dive - A Special Edition of 20/20

The September Issue

Trainwreck: The Real Project X

The Last Waltz

Sidney

A Toxic Love Story

Directed by John Ford

The Show Must Go On: The Queen + Adam Lambert Story

Stop Making Sense

