Un chien andalou
1 August 2007
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Stage & screen |
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The classic short movie from 1929, made in collaboration between Salvador Dali and Luis Bunuel.
The movie has no plot and appears to be very disjointed. Although there's the obvious suggestions the film is actually about a man and a woman in a relationship crisis and many a more esoteric interpretation has been giving to the movie, Bunuel made it clear throughout his writings, that between Dali and himself, the only rule for the writing of the script was that "no idea or image that might lend itself to a rational explanation of any kind would be accepted." Moreover, he stated that, "Nothing, in the film, symbolizes anything."
So you can still interpret, but any interpretation doesn't mean anything as the artists claim to not have put any meaning in their work anyway.
The movie is very well known for two scenes: the slashing of an eyeball with a razor blade and the dragging of the male protagonist of two grand pianos containing dead and rotting donkeys, the tablets of the Ten Commandments, and two live priests (one of which is Salvador Dali himself).
My guess on how to interpret this film? Two guys having fun trying out a relatively new medium while trying to make a surrealist work.
The copy I saw was the 1960 version which has the music attached to it which Bunuel played on a phonograph during the original 1929 screening.
The movie has no plot and appears to be very disjointed. Although there's the obvious suggestions the film is actually about a man and a woman in a relationship crisis and many a more esoteric interpretation has been giving to the movie, Bunuel made it clear throughout his writings, that between Dali and himself, the only rule for the writing of the script was that "no idea or image that might lend itself to a rational explanation of any kind would be accepted." Moreover, he stated that, "Nothing, in the film, symbolizes anything."
So you can still interpret, but any interpretation doesn't mean anything as the artists claim to not have put any meaning in their work anyway.
The movie is very well known for two scenes: the slashing of an eyeball with a razor blade and the dragging of the male protagonist of two grand pianos containing dead and rotting donkeys, the tablets of the Ten Commandments, and two live priests (one of which is Salvador Dali himself).
My guess on how to interpret this film? Two guys having fun trying out a relatively new medium while trying to make a surrealist work.
The copy I saw was the 1960 version which has the music attached to it which Bunuel played on a phonograph during the original 1929 screening.
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After obtaining an M. Sc in maths, Babak Fakhamzadeh started with an office job at a major blue chip company but soon realised he'd do better on his own. Babak is a traveling web guru with a penchant for doing good and a love for visual and experimental art. Together with Ismail Farouk, he won the prestigious Highway Africa new media award in 2007 for