“Films copied three times over are projected onto a screen divided into four sections, brutal onomatopoeia terrorises the ear, electronic sound pieces rattle, howl and whistle to accompany the wildly rushing images.”
Der Spiegel’s coverage of the festival (in German):
“Knokke. Preschendes Bild”, Der Spiegel, 2/68 (7 January 1968), 82/83
“The common premise of all these films, however, is that they consciously oppose narrative cinema, which in the minds of most people is the only cinema. These films are only undetermined when measured against the categories of narrative cinema. To demand that individual works be self-contained would be to misunderstand their basic tenor.”
Frieda Grafe’s observations and reflections on Knokke cinema in 1968 originally published in:
Filmkritik 12, No. 2 (February 1968), 102–103, English translation here
