Friday 6 September 2013

Surrealism: Un Chien Andalou

Surrealism is a modern approach to film theory, criticism, and production. Originated from Paris in the 1920s.

The surrealist cinema is characterized as the rejection of drama and an often use of shocking imagery.



One of the Surrealist films is Un Chien Andalou by Luis Buñuel and artist Salvador Deli. It was Buñuel's first movie and was released in 1929 with a limited showing at movie houses but later became widely popular and ran for eight months. 

This type of film has no plots, it starts in "once upon a time" then will jump to an "eight years later" scene without much progress. It uses dream logic in narrative flow.

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