EXPRMNTL
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Jonas Mekas
Boris Lehman
Roland Lethem
Agnès Varda
Harun Farocki
Eric De Kuyper
Birgit Hein
Werner Nekes
Jean-Jacques Lebel
Godfried-Willem Raes
Brecht Debackere
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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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