Un chien andalou

Duration: 0:16:00

Genre: Short Fantasy Horror

Year Published: 1929

Creator: Les Grands Films Classiques | Pyramid Film & Video | Pyramid Films: Publisher

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: A Film collaboration of Salvador Dali and Luis Bunuel about man's subconscious, loaded with all their obsessions and images of personal mythology. An attempt at pure surrealism, the viewer is jarred by a string of bizarre and grotesque scenes. Uses time and space shifts, rapid intercutting, dissolves, and other motion picture techniques to create a surreal montage from a succession of visual images. Includes such images as an eye being slit by a razor and a hand crawling with ants. Incorporates a Parisian melody and Wagner's Tristan and Isolde into the original production, directed by Luis Buñuel in 1928. No narration; title frames in French and English., Uses time and space shifts, rapid intercutting, dissolves, and other motion picture techniques to create a surreal montage from a succession of visual images. Includes such images as an eye being slit by a razor and a hand crawling with ants. Incorporates a Parisian melody and Wagner's Tristan and Isolde into the original production, directed by Luis Bunuel in 1928. No narration; title frames in French and English., Probably the most famous avant-garde film of all time, it was originally made, ironically, to satirize the pretentions and formalities of the avant-garde films of the twenties.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 bizarre and grotesque scenes. French titles.

Complete Record: , Uses time and space shifts, rapid intercutting, dissolves, and other motion picture techniques to create a surreal montage from a succession of visual images. Includes such images as an eye being slit by a razor and a hand crawling with ants. Incorporates a Parisian melody and Wagner's Tristan and Isolde into the original production, directed by Luis Bunuel in 1928. No narration; title frames in French and English., A surrealistic film composed of bizarre and grotesque scenes. A classic of avant-garde cinema, it was intended as an expression of automatism...produced directly from the subconscious without reference to rational explanations or conscious symbolism. The film is an assault on the viewer, literally illustrated in one celebrated shot where a straight razor is drawn across the surface of an exposed cornea. , , , NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.