EXPRMNTLMovie
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…
About EXPRMNTL
EXPRMNTL is a 2016 documentary movie directed by Brecht Debackere.
The production information lists a runtime of 1h 5m, an original language code of EN.
The credited cast includes Jonas Mekas, Agnès Varda, Harun Farocki, Birgit Hein. The synopsis above summarizes the central premise without adding details beyond the available title information.
