AN ANDALUSIAN DOG
France, 1929
Original Title::Un Chien Andalou
Screenplay: Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dalí. Director of Photography: Albert Duverger. Editor: Luis Buñuel. Set Design: Pierre Schildknecht. Cast and Characters: Luis Buñuel (man with the razor), Pierre Batcheff (the cyclist/man), Simone Mareuil (the girl), Jaime Miravilles, Marval (two priests), Fano Messan (androgynous woman), Robert Hommet (man on the beach). Production: Luis Buñuel. Length: 25’
Format: 35mm. Source: NFSA – National Film and Sound Archive, under licence from Contemporary Films. Original version. Subtitles: English
An iconic film of the surrealist movement. Without a defined, linear storyline, it presents a series of apparently disconnected scenes aimed at producing in the viewer a continuous cycle of allusions and stimuli straddling reality and fantasy.
“An Andalusian Dog grew out of an encounter between two dreams. Having just arrived at Dali’s house in Figueres, I told him that I had recently dreamed about a long narrow cloud slicing the moon and a razor slashing open an eye. He told me that the night before in a dream he had seen a hand covered in ants. He added: “Why don’t we make a film out of the two dreams?” The screenplay was written in less than a week based on a very simple premise that we both agreed to: we would not accept any ideas, any images that could be explained rationally, psychologically or culturally. We would open the door to the irrational. We would only have images that were striking, without trying to understand why.”
(Luis Buñuel)
Saturday 2th April 2022, h. 6:00 pm
