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Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog)(1929, France) by Luis Buñuel

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Luis Buñuel’s Un Chien Andalou Added to the Auteur Cinema Archive

The Auteur Cinema Archive is honored to welcome Un Chien Andalou (1929, France) by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí—an essential work of surrealist cinema that shattered narrative conventions and redefined the possibilities of the moving image. Nearly a century after its explosive debut, the film remains as provocative, mysterious, and influential as ever.

Buñuel’s first film and a cornerstone of cinematic surrealism, Un Chien Andalou is a relentless dreamscape composed of disjointed imagery, unconscious associations, and radical nonlinearity. With its infamous eye-slicing opener, religious and erotic symbolism, and temporal leaps from "once upon a time" to "sixteen years ago," the film rejects rational narrative in favor of Freudian dream logic. Designed explicitly to shock and liberate viewers from bourgeois complacency, the film challenges the very function of cinema.

Curator Kris De Meester on the significance of the film’s inclusion:
"Un Chien Andalou is pure cinema—undiluted, anarchic, and revolutionary. It doesn’t tell a story; it ruptures one. What Buñuel and Dalí achieved here was not just a cinematic milestone, but a psychic detonation. It’s a manifesto disguised as a film, and its influence reverberates through generations of auteurs. To exclude it from the archive would be to deny the surrealist soul of auteur cinema itself."

Originally released in Paris to a shocked but captivated audience, Un Chien Andalou played for eight months and became a beacon for the avant-garde. It marked the beginning of Buñuel’s lifelong assault on institutional power, logic, and narrative expectation—an ethos embraced by auteurs across decades.

The Auteur Cinema Archive’s inclusion of Un Chien Andalou acknowledges not just the film’s historical value, but its enduring challenge to the boundaries of cinematic form.

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