1. Un Chien Andalou
(An Andalusian Dog)
1929

2. Un Chien Andalou
• silent Surrealist film
• Directed by Spanish director Luis Bunuel and
artist Salvador Dali
• Andalusia- an autonomous community in
Spain
• Limited showing in Paris in 1929
• Became popular and ran for eight months

3. features
• Purposely incorrect spellings of names in
introduction (except for Dali)
• Absence of plot (in the conventional sense)
• Disjointed chronology
• Use of dream logic
• Use of Freudian free association

4. “ the most effective manner in which to
appreciate the film is to allow the images to
seduce, to watch with your eyes and emotions
and not to seek an explanation.”
- Michael Koller, film critic

5. Title Card Guide
• Once upon a time
• Eight years later
• Around three in the morning
• Sixteen years ago
• In Spring

6. Debriefing
• Story came from “the encounter between two
dreams”
• Cloud slitting the moon/ blade slitting the eye
- key to appreciating the film
- castration anxiety
• Dislocation of space
• Bourgeoisie outrage
• Death head moth

7. The Persistence of Memory, 1931

8. The
Lugubrious
Game/The
Mournful
Game, 1929

9. Face of Mae
West which
May be used
as an
Apartment,
1935

11. The Last Supper, 1955

13. Gala Contemplating the
Mediterranean Sea, which at 30
meters becomes the portrait of
Abraham Lincoln (Homage to
Rothko)
1976

15. Charades Game
(guess the painting)
• Count off
• Divide into 2 groups
• Each groups chooses a representative who will
act out for the group. The other group
chooses work from previous discussions for
the other group to guess. The other group is
given 30 seconds to guess the title.
• The group with the most points wins.