Archives: EXPRMNTL 4

In December 1967, West German filmmakers Claudia von Alemann and Reinold E. Thiel travelled to the Belgian seaside town of Knokke-Le-Zoute to report on what would become known as one of the most legendary events in the history of avant-garde cinema: EXPRMNTL 4, the festival organized by Jacques Ledoux, director of the Cinémathèque royale de Belgique. Just months before the tumult of May 1968, EXPRMNTL was a forum for not only the discovery of films such as Michael Snow’s Wavelength (1967), which won the grand prize, but also for happenings, protests, and provocations. Harun Farocki, Holger Meins, and others disrupted the proceedings in opposition to US imperialism and the war in Vietnam, while Jean-Jacques Lebel staged a mock beauty pageant called “Miss Experimentation” and Yoko Ono spent hours lying on the floor in a black cloth sack, a performance she called Bag Piece (1964).

This screening presents a new restoration of von Alemann and Thiel’s remarkable documentation of the festival alongside four of the more than 170 films that screened there, in and out of competition.

Curated by Erika Balsom

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