Un Chien Andalou (1929)
- Original title
- Un chien andalou
- Directed by
- Luis Buñuel
- Genre
- fantasy film, horror film, silent film, surrealist film
- Country
- France
- Runtime
- 16 min
- Rated
- 15
- Rating
- 7.4 of 10 from 1,426 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This French silent short film shows a series of disconnected scenes that follow dream logic. It jumps through time without clear cause or reason. The images are strange and intended to provoke a reaction.
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What happens
Un Chien Andalou (French pronunciation: [œ̃ ʃjɛ̃ ɑ̃dalu], An Andalusian Dog) is a 1929 French silent short film directed, produced and edited by Luis Buñuel, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Salvador Dalí. Buñuel's first film, it was initially released in a limited capacity at Studio des Ursulines in Paris, but became popular and ran for eight months. Un Chien Andalou has no plot in the conventional sense of the word. With disjointed chronology, jumping from the initial "once upon a time" to "eight years later" without events or characters changing, it uses dream logic in narrative flow that can be described in terms of the then-popular Freudian free association, presenting a series of tenuously related scenes. Un Chien Andalou is a seminal work of surrealist cinema. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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