Picasso

 is mentioned, yet the whole video rather screams René Magritte - Ceci n'est pas une pipe.




At the René Magritte retrospection in Düsseldorf there was a documentary about his life. The most shocking thing was learning that one night while he was still young his mother kissed him and his brothers and then drowned herself  in the local river. A traumatising experience for him because he witnessed her dead body with her nightgown wrapped around her head.
 Apart from this documentary there were also René Magritte's home movies were shown. Interesting to see Magritte and his entourage experiment with the possibilities of the medium film. There's a slight subversive humour in some of them.