Magritte

A film about art. Unusual compositions of images give familiar objects a new look.

Magritte

Magritte or the Object Lesson

The surrealist painter René Magritte questions the objective reality and emphasizes the arbitrariness of the relationship between an object, its image and its name: the evocation of mystery consists of images of familiar

Magritte Home Movies

In 1956, Magritte purchased a movie camera and, in the following years, made numerous short films featuring himself, his wife, their friends, and even their dog. Magritte’s home movies were sometimes scripted, but rarely

Magritte: The False Mirror

Introduces the world of painter René Magritte through an assemblage of the painter's images. Includes statements by Magritte about his intentions and anecdotes from his friends Mesens and Scutenaire.

Monsieur René Magritte

Documentary about the Belgian surrealist artist who died in 1967.

Magritte: O Making Of

Why Magritte Matters

Sarah Whitfield, a London-based independent art historian, writer, and curator, is co-author of the Magritte catalogue raisonné and editor of René Magritte: Newly Discovered Works. She was the curator of the 1992 Magritt

Homage to Magritte

This film opens with the sense of juxtaposition and absurdity that are the basis of Magritte's paintings, and succeeds in contributing to the surrealist tradition through subtle and powerful manipulations of the filmed i

Hérésie pour Magritte V

Magritte, le jour et la nuit

Hérésie pour Magritte I

Hérésie pour Magritte VII

Hérésie pour Magritte VIII

Hérésie pour Magritte III

Hérésie pour Magritte VI

Hérésie pour Magritte II

La Grande Famille by René Magritte in different sizes superimposed, animates the dove and gives an impression of continuous flight.

Magritte's Train

Tribute to Rene Magritte's surrealistic world. A train exits the saxophone and passes through the frame, forming a comic strip that presents us a modern, alienated society.

Hérésie pour Magritte IV

Ulrich Gregor is filmed in his office at the Berlin Film Festival surrounded by the festival's poster (The Great Family of René Magritte).

Rene Magritte: Man in the Hat

In this film, Will Young travels to Magritte's native Belgium to find out more about the man whose trademark was a bowler hat and whose apparently conventional exterior concealed the mind of a subversive rebel. Will unco