Directed by Luis Buñuel. written by Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel. Starring Pierre Batcheff, Simone Mareuil and Luis Buñuel. Soundtrack by Paula Temple @paulatemple - Raging Earth [NM009] & Daniel Avery @danielmarkavery - Quick Eternity [Four Tet Remix] @fourtetkieran
“Un Chien Andalou (“An Andalusian Dog”) launched the careers of these two Spaniards, Luis Buñuel and Salvador Salvador Dalí, though they’d been expecting a scandalized reaction from their bourgeois Parisian audience; Buñuel even had his pockets filled with rocks to throw at an audience he’d thought would be so outraged that they’d want to attack the filmmakers. Instead, the bourgeois audience loved the twenty-minute short.
Buñuel’s and Dali’s intention had been to shock their audience with images of blatant sexuality and violence; Buñuel called the film an “impassioned call for murder.” As a communist, Buñuel despised the hypocrisy of the bourgeoisie and the Church; accordingly, he went out of his way to expose, ridicule, and offend that sanctimonious establishment in all the films of his career.
Un Chien Andalou isn’t just a random jumble of vignettes, even if its creators insisted that it was. Like any great work of art, there are consistent themes to be explored: its surrealism merely means that one must be something of a psychoanalyst to uncover its secrets. Using free association, one looks at the freely given images and associates them to reveal the unconscious meanings within.” By Mawr Gorshin
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