film Un Chien Andalou

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film short film silent film surrealist film

Un Chien Andalou is a landmark 1929 surrealist short film, co-written by Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel, renowned for its shocking, dreamlike imagery and non-linear narrative.

Aliases (1)

Un Chien Andalou ×53

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	film → short film → silent film → surrealist film →
associatedWith	Luis Buñuel → Salvador Dalí →
castMember	Fano Messan → Luis Buñuel → Marval → Pierre Batcheff → Robert Hommet → Simone Mareuil →
cinematographyBy	Albert Duverger →
colorProcess	black-and-white →
countryOfOrigin	Spain →
director	Luis Buñuel →
era	1920s European avant-garde cinema →
filmTechnique	discontinuous editing → match cuts → visual metaphor →
firstScreeningLocation	Studio des Ursulines, Paris →
firstScreeningYear	1929 →
genre	Surrealism → avant-garde film → experimental film →
hasTheme	dreams → irrationality → unconscious mind →
influenced	experimental film → surrealist cinema →
movement	Surrealism →
musicBy	Richard Wagner → Tango music →
narrativeStructure	non-linear narrative →
notableFor	dreamlike imagery → iconic eye-slicing scene → shocking imagery →
notableScene	cloud slicing the moon paralleled with razor slicing an eye →
originalLanguage	French →
producer	Luis Buñuel →
releaseDate	1929-06-06 →
releaseYear	1929 →
runtimeMinutes	16 →
setting	Paris →
sound	silent with musical accompaniment →
title	Un Chien Andalou →
translatedTitle	An Andalusian Dog →
writer	Luis Buñuel → Salvador Dalí →

Referenced by (5)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Salvador Dalí →	created
L'Age d'Or ("Un Chien Andalou") →	follows
Surrealism ("Un Chien Andalou") →	hasNotableWork
Luis Buñuel ("Un Chien Andalou") →	notableWork
Un Chien Andalou ("Un Chien Andalou") →	title