A screening of shorts projected on 16mm in the Café & Bar, closing with a rare screening of Michael Snow’s experimental film Wavelength (courtesy of LUX Moving Image).

Considered a ‘landmark event in cinema’, Snow’s film won the Knokke Grand Prix prize in 1967 and became a cornerstone of the structural film canon, influencing filmmakers from Austrian experimentalist Peter Tscherkassky to Chantal Akerman.

Akerman often explained how Wavelength exploded the possibilities of the medium with its conceptual and formal rigour, and extreme immersion into cinema duration.

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