Un chien andalou

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 No narration; title frames in French and English., Probably the most famous avant-garde film of all time, it was originally made, ironically, to satirize the pretentions and formalities of the avant-garde films of the twenties.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.