Un Chien Andalou (Andalusian Dog)

Un Chien Andalou (Andalusian Dog)

Un Chien Andalou (Andalusian Dog)

This is a film written by Salvador Dali, a Catalan surrealist. I'm not going to attempt to explain what is going on in the film, as surrealism is left open to interpretation intentionally. To continue the theme here, though, this film relates to many of the books we read in this class because of the way it looks at the inner workings of the self. Most specifically, we can put this film next to Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea. Rhys's project in writing Wide Sargasso Sea was to give voice to the crazy lady in the attic, which meant that we as readers got to watch the slow descent into insanity from inside her mind. However, we are still, by virture of being readers of an interpretation of a person's mind, on the outside. The same can be said for Dali's film. For all we know, Dali was showing a slow descent into insanity by following the inner workings of this man's mind, but we are on the outside, and therefore understand nothing of the sort. This item had to be included in this timeline of surrealism to show that the concept of surrealism did not change throughout the movement, and that the statement surrealists made through visual art can also be seen in novels and other writings.

Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dali

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This film was originally released in 1929

film

silent, French

horror, surrealism, art

film

16 minutes

Luis Buñuel

Luis Buñuel