The Belgian avant-garde is unjustly relegated to flower on the wall when compared to its French namesake.  The two filmmakers Henri d’Ursel and Ernst Moerman are an impressive testimony to this. In “La Perle” and in a Paris that looks like something from a Louis Feuillade serial, the hero is on a quest for a pearl that keeps eluding him throughout a string of bizarre encounters. Also the surrealist satire „Monsieur Fantômas“ is conceived as an homage to the demoralising gentleman and conjures up a world in which nothing is impossible and where miracles are the shortest route from insecurity to mystery.