Title: An Andalusian dog /
Authors: Buñuel, Luis, 1900-1983,; Dalí, Salvador, 1904-1989; Batcheff, Pierre; Miravilles, Jaime; Mareuil, Simone; Amos Vogel Annenberg School of Communications Collection (Harvard Film Archive)
Year: 1928
Subjects: Surrealism in motion pictures.; Subconsciousness.; Dreams.; Surrealism.; Spain in motion pictures.; Spain Civilization
Abstract: Luis Bunuel's controversial film classic presents the viewer with hallucinatory scenes of desire and repulsion."Un Chien Andalou" foreshadows Bunuel's interest in class, religion and the surreal, themes that he would explore again and again in his later films. Bunuel and his collaborator Catalunian painter Salvador Dali, created this revolutionary film using animals, razors and inventive dissolves to create an attack on the conservative Catholic values of their native country Spain. The French director Jean Vigo after seeing "Un Chien Andalou" wrote the following: "Un Chien Andalou though primarily a subjective drama developed like a poem, is nonetheless for me a film with a social theme. M. Bunuel is a fine marksman who disdains the stab in the back. A kick in the pants to macabre ceremonies. A kick in the pants to sadism, of which clowning is its most disguised form. Shame on those that kill in youth that which they themselves could have become...Beware of the dog, it bites." Jean Vigo "This film draws its inspiration from poetry, freed from reason and traditional morality. It has no intention of attracting or pleasing the spectator, indeed on the contrary, it attacks him to the degree to which he belongs to a society with which surrealism is at war." Luis Bunuel