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Chien Andalou, Un
- 1929 ----- b & w ----- 16 min ----- 16mm
- Probably the most famous avant-garde film of all time, it was orginally made, ironically, to satirize the pretentions and formalities of the avant-garde films of the Twenties. An attempt at pure surrealism, the viewer is jarred by a string of bizzare and grotesque scenes. It was conceived by Salvador Dali and Luis Bunuel who has said, "This film has no intention of attracting nor pleasing the spectator; indeed, on the contrary, it attacks him, to the degree that he belongs to a society with which surrealism is at war. . . those foolish people who have been able to find the film beautiful or poetic when at bottom it is really a desperate and passionate call to murder."
- Topics: (Art, Motion Pictures: Experimental, Motion Pictures: History)
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