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…
Community
Vote on scenes, quotes, and characters for EXPRMNTL (2016).
The moment that still lives in your head.
Starters for EXPRMNTL
Your take
Rate this title
Tap half or full stars · 0.5–10 scale
Be the first Cinemoood rating
Open communitySign in to save your rating.
None yet
See all
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
Girl Reading a Letter by an Open Window
1983 · 5.5
Une certaine histoire du cinéma expérimental français
2019
On the Heights All Is Peace
1998 · 6.8
Running Shadow I
1971 · 5.5
2minutes40seconds
1975
A Trip to the Seaside
2019
Approach the Truth_Superman
2006
State of Rest and Motion
2017
Irradiant Field
2016
Robert Breer At Home
1992
