Overview: 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…
Simons - A journey of historical conjunction and remembrance
Overview: The solar eclipse sends Simons from a fictional post-war city Vaken to modern-day Canada. During this day trip, his mind jumped back and forth between his ruined hometown by Nuclear Weapons and modern-day Toronto to examine the themes of variation (un-unity), reconstruction, and isolation.