Un Chien Andalou is a silent surrealist short film by the director Luis Bunuel and the surrealist artist Salvador Dali. The film was released in 1929 with a limited showing in Paris, which ran for eight months. The film doesn't have a plot and is disjointed. Luis Bunuel was a experimental film maker and came up with edit effect we still use to date. when it came to writing the script there was a simple rule that Dali and Bunuel followed and that was not to incorporate any images or ideas that could give the audience a explanation. As they intended to create dream like sequences.When it comes to music/ soundtracks it can affect the audience and cause the audience to interoperate the film differently. Un Chien Andalou by be a silent film due to its time period but it did have music. A gramophone was played to go long with the film.
The film was restored but had changes done for example the original was 16 and the restored version was 21 minutes long. This is because the restored version was slowed down to be in real time compared to the original which was sped up in places. The restored version also had different a score/ soundtrack, like a said above affect how the audience receives it. But the soundtrack for the restored version un intentionally give the film some meaning.
80 years since the film was released and yet most people have seen some of film. Most people won't know the film. But its due to a scene in which a woman has her eye cut open with a razor blade, which was done by editing the footage of the woman and a dead pig getting its eye cut. A very shocking scene which keeps people talking about it, true nowadays we are exposed to a lot more but this was the first to do it, plus that was still a real eye.
By watching you can tell its Dali's work, as the film has a scene that has the iconic image of Dali with his had covered in ants. Dali used ants in his work to symbolise decay and decomposition.
This image below is part of dali's most recognised piece of work called "The Persistence of Memory" but most will know what your talking about if you say melting clock painting.
