Magritte or the Object Lesson

Jan 1, 1960

0h 14m

★ 5.6

Overview

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.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

RTBF

Ministère de l’Instruction publique

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Cast

Self - Narrator (voice)

Serge Sauvion

Self - Painter (uncredited)

René Magritte

Self - Writer (uncredited)

Marcel Lecomte

Self - Writer (uncredited)

Louis Scutenaire

Self - Writer (uncredited)

Camille Goemans

Self - Writer (uncredited)

Irène Hamoir

Sicily, Granitola, 1955. At the first light of dawn, the fishermen set out in their boats for open water, timing the rhythm of their oars to murmured chants. They set their nets in the sea, regulate the cords, organize the boats in a square. The men’s work becomes increasingly harder as the tuna are hoisted onto the boats, wriggling, beating their tails until death arrives and the water is tinged with blood.

8.0

Delacroix, d'orient et d'occident

Jan 22, 2018

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6.7

Images of Asian Music (A Diary from Life 1973-74)

Jan 1, 1974

A contemplative, seemingly timeless record of the years Hutton spent in Southeast Asia while working as a merchant seaman. Jon Jost writes, "The film is rich with truly wonderful visions: a thick, white porcelain cup perched on a ship's rail, the tea within swaying gently in sync with the ship while the sea rushes by beyondthe faces of crewmen posing awkwardly but also movingly for the camera; a cockfight on ship; scenes from a bucolic pre–Pol Pot Phnom Penh. Images has the haunting elegiac resonance of Eugène Atget's Paris, the echo of a time and place that was." - MoMA

4.2

Song 5

Mar 20, 1964

SONG 5: A childbirth song (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).

4.8

Berlin 1990

Nov 8, 1990

Some months after the fall of the Berlin wall, during the time of federal elections in Germany in 1990, Chris Marker shot this passionate documentary, reflecting the state of the place and its spirit with remarkable acuity.

6.0

Welles' Language

Jan 1, 1990

Orson Welles acted in Brazilian culture and music by deeply researching Brazil's historical geology, consciously completing a legendary cultural mission. Although being turned down by Hollywood producers, he developed a triumphantly accomplished mission in the language domain - three friends of Welles' testified his love for cinema, his passion for Brazilian music and people and his obstinate endurance against formidable pressures coming from inside and outside Hollywood regarding his unfinished "It's All True".

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3.0

Rambling 'Round Radio Row #1

Jun 25, 1932

Jerry Wald has to write about radio, visiting Sid Gary gives him the tip it might be more easy for him to write this article at the radio station than at his newspaper office. At the studio they listen to the Boswell Sister's rehearsal, which is interupted by some not so friendly remarks by orchestra leader Abe Lyman, they listen at the door, where a Colonel Stoopnagel broadcast is prepared, as well as to the rehearsal of a new song for an broadcast by Kate Smith.

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5.0

Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra

Oct 22, 1938

In a nightclub setting, Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra, with two of his vocalists, perform four of the group's best known songs. For the complete list of songs, check the soundtrack listing.

5.2

Antigravitation

Jan 1, 1995

An isolated village in the Lithuanian countryside. Seated in her house, an elderly woman recites an old folk story. Then she climbs up the tall ladder that takes her to the rooftop of the church.

5.9

Larisa

Oct 1, 1980

Elem Klimov's documentary ode to his wife, director Larisa Shepitko, who was killed in an auto wreck.