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Un Chien Andalou (English: An Andalusian Dog) is a 16-minute surrealist film made in France in 1928 by Spanish writer/directors Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí, and released in 1929 in Paris. It is one of the best-known surrealist films of the French avant-garde film movement of the 1920s. It is also considered one of the most prominent films in Spanish Surrealism. It stars Simone Mareuil and Pierre Batcheff as the unnamed protagonists.

The film has no plot, in the conventional sense of the word. There are two central characters, an unnamed man and woman. The chronology of the film is disjointed: for example, it jumps from "once upon a time" to "eight years later" without the events changing. It uses dream logic that can be described in terms of Freudian free association, presenting a series of tenuously related scenes that attempt to shock the viewer.

The film opens with a scene in which a woman's eye is slit by a razor. The man with the razor is played by Buñuel himself. In subsequent scenes, a man's hand has a hole in the palm from which ants emerge; an androgynous blind woman pokes at a severed hand in the street with her cane before being knocked down by a car; the man fondles a woman, who resists him violently, and then he drags two grand pianos containing dead and rotting donkeys, the tablets of the Ten Commandments, and two live priests (Dalí plays one of the priests in this scene); the man's father (played by the same actor as the man himself) arrives to punish him, but the man eventually shoots him with two books that abruptly turn to pistols; and the woman's armpit hair attaches itself to the man's face.

At the end of the film, the woman walks out of the apartment building, and meets another man on the beach (also played by Dalí). They seem to be happy, but the final shot shows two figures (apparently Mareuil and Dalí) buried in sand, dead, and "consumed by swarms of flies" according to Buñuel's original script. However, this latter special effect was left out due to budget limitations.

Modern prints of the film feature a soundtrack: excerpts from Richard Wagner's Liebestod, the concert version of the finale to his opera Tristan und Isolde, and two Argentinian tangos. These are the same music that Buñuel played on a phonograph during the original 1929 screening; he first added them to a sound print of the film in 1960.

In spite of varying interpretations, Buñuel made clear throughout his writings that, between Dalí and himself, the only rule for the writing of the script was that "no idea or image that might lend itself to a rational explanation of any kind would be accepted."Moreover, he stated that, "Nothing, in the film, symbolizes anything. The only method of investigation of the symbols would be, perhaps, psychoanalysis."

Film scholar Ken Dancyger has argued that Un chien andalou might be the genesis of the filmmaking style present in the modern music video.Roger Ebert has called it one of the first low budget independent films.

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Made in 1929, Un Chien Andalou (The Andalusian Dog) is regarded as the first film produced purely from within the Surrealist Movement, and a landmark in the history of cinema. Based on an exchange of dreams between Salvador Dali and acclaimed director Luis Bu�uel, this tale of unfulfilled desire opens innocently with the words "Once upon a time." What follows is one of the most shocking and celebrated sequences in film history - a razor slashing a woman's eye in extreme close up...

Intended to provoke rather than to please (Bunuel saw it as 'nothing more than a desperate, a passionate appeal to murder'), Un Chien Andalou is a triumph of art and a hysterically dark joy ride whose power to affront the viewer is undiminished after more than three quarters of a century.
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Special Features:
-A Slice of Bu�uel: a documentary featuring Bu�uel's son, Juan-Luis, 16 min
-Epilogue: Bu�uel & Dali Bonus Interview, 5 min
-Audio Commentary by Surrealism expert Stephen Barber, author of Antonin Artaud: Blows and Bombs
-Mystery of Cinema, abridged transcript of speech given by Luis Bu�uel in 1953
-Dave McKean graphic design and statement

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Un Chien Andalou version Drum'n bass...

Trailer to my first juggling video.

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Un Chien Andalou Revisted. Using Salvador Dali's Un Chien Andalou as inspiration. The point of the assignment was to use the cinematic properties of the original. For example: black and white, short shots, more than one setting, soundtrack. In no way was it supposed to be about the ideas or the same theme as the original.

This was also the very first film I made where I had to edit, direct, produce, etc. So go easy...it was a learning experience.