Director: Luis Buñuel Possibly the most well-known example of surrealist cinema, Un Chien Andalou is most effectively described as a series of striking, unrelated images tied together with the illogicality of a dream. Seeming meaningless, the film will have you jumping from scene to scene with little in the way of plot to justify anything that youre seeing. What makes Un Chien Andalou particularly extraordinary was that it was inspired by the actual dreams, or nightmares, or its creators. The scene where the girls eye is sliced in half actually came from a dream that Buñuel had, and the scene where the hand explodes into ants was a based on the dreams of co-creator Salvador Dali. The film almost challenges you to try and make sense of it, but both Buñuel and Salvador Dali have stated that Un Chien Andalou was never meant to be comprehensible. Its just a collection of shots that bear no relation to one another, jumbled together in a spiders web of meaning. You could spend a lifetime trying to piece it all together, and you never would.
