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Marcel is a collective formed to make a film of the same name. A docu-drama about the factual and fictive associations between three celebrated artists who gravitated around the surrealist movement in Belgium and France: Marcel Duchamp, Marcel Mariën and Marcel Broodthaers. A rocambolesque mise en scène, hallucinatory décor and spatiotemporal collages make the reappearance of these ghosts of surrealism possible. 'Marcel' takes as its point of departure a re-interpretation of Marcel Mariën's controversial film, 'L’imitation du cinéma' (The Imitation Of Cinema) (1959), itself a satire of the book 'The Imitation of Christ' (Thomas Kemper, 1424). Playing on the intentionally outdated aesthetics of this historic film, Marcel approaches the past in a similar way to Mariën who based his film on a book from the Middle Ages to critique surrealism and bourgeois Christian society.