From: john porter (email suppressed)
Date: Mon Apr 20 2009 - 15:50:49 PDT
Thanks Xavier,
Can you say yet what the projection/exhibition formats will be?
John.
John Porter, Toronto, Canada
http://www.super8porter.ca/
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--- On Mon, 4/20/09, Xavier Garcia Bardon <email suppressed> wrote:
> From: Xavier Garcia Bardon <email suppressed>
> Subject: EXPRMNTL - Knokke - May 3
> To: email suppressed
> Received: Monday, April 20, 2009, 6:06 PM
> SUNDAY MAY 3, 2009
> 13:00 > 20:00
>
> Casino Knokke-Heist
> Zeedijk-Albertstrand 509, 8300 Knokke-Heist
> Belgium
>
> In the context of the Internationaal Fotofestival
> Knokke-Heist
>
>
>
> EXPRMNTL
> Curated by Xavier Garcia Bardon. Coordinated by Kevin
> Decoster.
>
> EXPRMNTL is the most important event that has ever been
> organized for
> experimental cinema. This amazing festival (five editions
> between 1949 and
> 1974), organized in Knokke-le-Zoute in an empty casino
> between Christmas and
> New Year, was a key place for experimental film in the
> critical period of
> its development, and almost the only meeting point for
> avant-garde
> filmmakers for years, the place where experimental
> movements connected.
>
> But EXPRMNTL was way more than that: it remains a
> fascinating experience in
> the history of underground culture. As Jacques Ledoux, its
> founder and
> director (who was also the director of the Royal Belgian
> Film Archive) said
> : ‘The greatness of Knokke lies in its bringing face to
> face, not only film
> makers, but novelists, theatre people, painters, et al.
> There are not only
> screenings, but discussions, meetings; it is that which
> gives Knokke its
> true interest’. To connect people and ideas, to provoke
> unexpected meetings
> (with also an important social and political aspect), was
> the main project
> behind EXPRMNTL.
>
> In this isolated place, out of the world, people met, films
> were screened,
> happenings happened and scandals broke out: this is where
> Underground film
> came to Europe, where Jean-Luc Godard and Agnès Varda saw
> Jack Smith’s
> Flaming Creatures, secretly shown in a hotel room; where
> Yoko Ono did a
> naked performance with Jean-Jacques Lebel; where German
> students of the SDS
> (including Holger Meins, future member of the Rote Armee
> Fraktion, and Harun
> Farocki) demonstrated against experimental cinema. EXPRMNTL
> was an
> experiment in itself.
>
> In the historical context of the Casino, this programme
> featuring film
> screenings, live performances, talks and an exhibition of
> rare documents
> related to EXPRMNTL will discuss the history and importance
> of the festival.
> It will also offer a rare opportunity to visit the
> fantastic Magritte zaal -
> which is usually not open to the public - and to talk with
> the ghosts of
> Knokke-le-Zoute.
>
> LIVE PERFORMANCES
> CHARLEMAGNE PALESTINE (USA)
> LUDO MICH (BE)
> DOLPHINS INTO THE FUTURE (BE) play Le Vampire de la
> Cinémathèque (Roland
> Lethem, Belgium, 1971, 24’)
>
> SPECIAL SCREENINGS
> Line Describing a Cone (Anthony McCall, UK, 1973, 30‘)
> Le Corbeau et le Renard (Marcel Broodthaers, Belgium, 1967,
> 10’)
>
> EXHIBITION
> Documents related to the history of EXPRMNTL (1949-1974)
>
> FILM SCREENINGS
> The Big Shave (Martin Scorsese, USA, 1967, 6’)
> 21/87 (Arthur Lipsett, Canada, 1963, 11')
> Schwechater (Peter Kubelka, Austria, 1957-58, 2’)
> Wavelength (Michael Snow, Canada, 1966-67, 45’)
> Unedited Material from the Star (John Latham, UK, 1960,
> 12’)
> Talk Mr Bard (John Latham, UK, 1968, 7’)
> Speak (John Latham, UK, 1968-69, 11’)
> Flaming Creatures (Jack Smith, USA, 1963, 45’)
> Ray Gun Virus (Paul Sharits, USA, 1966, 14‘)
> Pêche de nuit (Henri Chopin, Tjerk Wicky & Luc Peire,
> France, Switzerland,
> Belgium, 1963, 12’)
> Beatles Electroniques (Nam June Paik & Jud Yalkut, USA,
> 1966-72, 1992, 3’)
> Towers Open Fire (Anthony Balch & William Burroughs,
> UK, 1963, 10’)
> Saturnus (Ludo Mich, Belgium, 1971, 30’)
>
> COME EARLY
> Entrance: 2 eur / free with the Fotofestival pass (8 eur)
> Coproduction: Internationaal Fotofestival Knokke-Heist /
> Kunstencentrum Buda
> Kortrijk.
> With the help of: Cinematek.
>
> Also in the context of the Internationaal Fotofestival
> Knokke-Heist
>
> MARCEL BROODTHAERS – TEXTE ET PHOTOS
>
> STILL / MOVING / STILL - Robert Barry, Lothar Baumgarten,
> David Blamey,
> Marcel Broodthaers, Matthew Buckingham, David Bunn, Daniela
> Comani, Peter
> Downsbrough, Cerith Wyn Evans, Ceal Floyer, Andrea Geyer,
> Liam Gillick,
> Shumona Goel, Dan Graham, Tamar Guimaraes, Mischa Kuball,
> Hilary Lloyd, Mary
> Lucier, Anthony Mc Call, Simon Dybbroe Møller, Jonathan
> Monk, Dennis
> Oppenheim, Pablo Pijnappel, Wolfgang Plöger, Erik Schmidt,
> Billy Sullivan,
> Lisa Tan, Sofie Thorsen, Markus Wirthmann, Florian Zeyfang,
> e.a. Curated by
> Marc Glöde.
>
> Cultuurcentrum Scharpoord
> Meerlaan 32, 8300 Knokke-Heist
> email suppressed
> www.ccknokke-heist.be
> www.fotofestival.be
>
>
> *EXPRMNTL SCHEDULE*
>
> 13:00 > 20:00
> Exhibition
>
> 13:00
> Introduction by Xavier Garcia Bardon
> The Big Shave (Martin Scorsese, USA, 1967, 6’)
> 21/87 (Arthur Lipsett, Canada, 1963, 11')
> Schwechater (Peter Kubelka, Austria, 1957-58, 2’)
> Wavelength (Michael Snow, Canada, 1966-67, 45’)
>
> 14:30
> CHARLEMAGNE PALESTINE – live performance
>
> 15:30
> Line Describing a Cone (Anthony McCall, 1973, 30’)
>
> 16:00
> Le corbeau et le renard (Marcel Broodthaers, Belgium, 1967,
> 10’) introduced
> by Maria Gilissen.
>
> 16:30
> Unedited Material from the Star (John Latham, UK, 1960,
> 12’)
> Talk Mr Bard (John Latham, UK, 1968, 7’)
> Speak (John Latham, UK, 1968-69, 11’)
>
> 17:00
> Le Vampire de la Cinémathèque (Roland Lethem, Belgium,
> 1971, 24’). Live
> soundtrack by DOLPHINS INTO THE FUTURE. Introduced by
> Roland Lethem.
> Flaming Creatures (Jack Smith, USA, 1963, 45’)
> Ray Gun Virus (Paul Sharits, USA, 1966, 14‘)
>
> 18:30
> Pêche de nuit (Henri Chopin, Tjerk Wicky, Luc Peire,
> France, Switzerland,
> Belgium, 1963, 12’) introduced by Marc Peire.
> Beatles Electroniques (Nam June Paik & Jud Yalkut, USA,
> 1966-72, 1992, 3’)
> Towers Open Fire (Anthony Balch & William Burroughs,
> UK, 1963, 10’)
>
> 19:00
> Saturnus (Ludo Mich, Belgium, 1971, 30’) introduced by
> Ludo Mich.
> LUDO MICH – live performance
>
>
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