It assaults old and unconscious habits of moviegoing. Un Chien Andalou, a French short film directed by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali, is a very unconventional film for its time and still today. The dangerous ideas of avant-garde art and film blew through the world, with Paris at the center of the maelstrom. The film, which has no central plot, established setting, or development of character is made up of a sequence of random occurring events that have no apparent connection to each other. “N othing other than a desperate, impassioned call for murder”, is how director Luis Buñuel once described Le Chien Andalou. Put them together, and you end up with one of the strangest, most interesting, most widely praised films of all time, even still today, nearly 90 years after its release. Un Chien Andalou is the film that you’ve no doubt seen at least parts of, whether in an intro to film class … "Un Chien Andalou" was one of the first handmade films--movies made by their creators on a shoestring budget, without studio financing. Un Chien Andalou (in French pronounced as /œ̃ ʃjɛ̃ ɑ̃dalu/, An Andalusian Dog) is a 1929 Franco-Spanish silent surrealist short film by Spanish director Luis Buñuel and artist Salvador Dalí. Considered the first Surrealist film for its non-sequential scenes, Un Chien Andalou recreates a dream-like setting in which images are presented in montaged clips as a means of tapping the unconscious. ). It is disturbing, frustrating, maddening. Un Chien andalou, one of the seminal films of Surrealism and of the avant-garde cinema of the period, was the result of close collaboration between Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí. This film still from Un Chien Andalou is indicative of the Surrealist love of shock and bodily violation. It seems without purpose (and yet how much purpose, really, is there in seeing most of the movies we attend? Making sense of Buñuel’s Un chien andalou BY BEATRIZ CABALLERO RODRIGUEZ. Though I can't honestly claim there was much method in my madness, I think it's appropriate that Man … Un Chien Andalou was a collaboration between the surrealist artists Salvador Dali and Luis Buñuel, both of whom intended that the film not make sense. During January 1929 the two worked on the conception of the script, tentatively titled Dangereux de se pencher au dedans. It is an ancestor of the works of John Cassavetes and today's independent digital movies. It is a film obviously preoccupied with sexual anxiety and, more importantly, the male fear of impotency and castration. A psychoanalytical reading of Un Chien Andalou will produce the best possible interpretation of the film but you don't need to be a psychologist to understand the majority of the symbolism on display in the film. In "Independent Study in World Cinema," a self-educated film nerd attempts to fill in some fairly serious gaps in his self-education.In this seventh entry in the series, I experience Un Chien Andalou (1929), a short cinematic fever dream from the minds of Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí.. Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog) is a 1929 silent surrealist short film by the Spanish director Luis Buñuel and artist Salvador Dalí. "Un Chien Andalou" is a curtain-raiser: In a way, he was never unfaithful to it. ‘Un Chien Andalou (film still)’ was created in 1928 by Salvador Dali in Surrealism style.