Magritte or the Object Lesson

Magritte or the Object Lesson

14 mins | Documentary | Jan. 1, 1960

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 things gathered or transformed in such a way that they no longer conform to our ideas, whether naive or wise.

Magritte or the Object Lesson

14 mins | Documentary | Jan. 1, 1960

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 things gathered or transformed in such a way that they no longer conform to our ideas, whether naive or wise.
Producers RTBF, Ministère de l’Instruction publique
Original title La Leçon de choses ou Magritte
Directors Jacques Delcorde, Luc de Heusch, Jacqueline Veuve
Writers Jean Raine, Jacques Delcorde, Luc de Heusch

Cast

Serge Sauvion

as Self - Narrator (voice)

René Magritte

as Self - Painter (uncredited)

Marcel Lecomte

as Self - Writer (uncredited)

Louis Scutenaire

as Self - Writer (uncredited)

Camille Goemans

as Self - Writer (uncredited)

Irène Hamoir

as Self - Writer (uncredited)