CD Rom: Mac & Windows Available in English, French and Dutch in the Expo-Shop.
The Mystery of Magritte cd-rom

Minimum system requirements

PC Windows Multimedia PC 486 processor 8 Mb RAM Windows 3.1 or Windows 95 Double speed CD-ROM drive 256 colour 640 x 480 pixel SVGA display Soundblaster or Windows compatible soundcard Mouse If you use Win 98 click here

Apple Macintosh 68040 processor 5,5 Mb RAM available System 7 or higher Double speed CD-ROM drive 256 colour 640 x 480 display Mouse

Media content

400 reproductions of paintings, drawings, illustrations
100 B/W photographs
15 min. TV interviews of Magritte
10 min. radio interview
Original soundtrack

Synopsis

Chap 1 : Prologue : René Magritte, who are you ?

Chap 2 : Biography

Chilhood, suicide of his mother. Meeting with Georgette, his wife, his model, his surrealist muse.

The surrealists in Paris - The surrealists in Belgium.

The bird, the apple, the bowler hat, the bell, the stone are explained by Magritte himself.

Magritte's painting titles are mysterious; he explain his poetical vision of those titles.

The words and the images : e.g. "ceci n'est pas une pipe"

Advertising - Illustrations - Photography - Super 8 movies - Sculptures

Chronological index - Keyword index - Figure index.

Credits

Executive Producer : Emmanuel Berryer for Virtuo s.a.
Text & Scenario : Pierre Sterckx
Storyboarding : Michel Bries
Graphic Design & Authoring : Ex Machina
Test & Optimization : Marc Van Olmen for Sky 4 production
Soundtrack & Music : Jean-Philippe Duboscq & Alain Debaisieux
Voices Casting & Recording : Pierre Fabry for Comedia digital
Translation : Mendez Translation

Press Reviews

"Who'd have thought that a CD ROM about the work of a barmy Belgian painter obsessed by bowler hats and apples would turn out to be the best disc this year ?"
The Times

"Yet the Belgian designers have excelled to produce one of the richest CD Roms this year. They have had fun with Magritte's images without mocking them. They have built a huge numbers of routes, with hundreds of diversions, for the viewer to select. They have blended narration, text, paintings,photographs, video clips, animations and original music wonderfully."
Sunday Times, rating 10/10

"This is not a CD ROM, It's not a pipe either. It's a gem. Let's hope work is already under way so we can explore other 20 th century artists like this."
Surrey Herald

"A masterwork, probably the first real masterpiece on a CD-Rom dedicated to a painter. Everything is magnificent. The greatest compliment to make about this CD-Rom is that it is impossible to describe. It is an hyper media, a real one, which is not linear. Would it be possible to ask the authors to find a popular painter which will inspire them - even if he's not belgian? That would probably help all the CD-Rom's publishers and their clients to understand what computers may bring to art."
Le Figaro

Awards

Grand prix Möbius 1996

M.I.M. d'or 1996

SVM Mac Trophy

Flèche FNAC

Eureka d'or, Bayard presse