Dissecting Surrealism: A Study of 'Un Chien Andalou'

The Weirdest Short Film in Brenda's World The short film Un Chien Andalou (1929) by Luis Buñel consists of twenty minutes of bizarre and surreal images that may or may not have a significant meaning behind it. Whether or not this video has a reason behind all of the images it portrays, it is still an unusual video to watch. This short film was honestly one of the weirdest short clips I have watched for the fact that it contains a lot of surrealism, possibly a meaning of some sort of fetish, and disturbing images. For instance, the reason why I managed to catch a lot of surrealism throughout watching this film was because it shows a lot of unnatural images that are not common. For example, when a young man has ants coming out of his palm and he seems to enjoy it along with the lady who walks towards him, yet this is a disturbing and uncommon thing to watch in the real world. Another image from the film that is strange is when this woman is playing with this severely hurt hand with a cane as if she was receiving some sort of pleasure by playing with it. Thus, this short film displays many acts of surrealism throughout every minute of it. In addition, this short film also displays a lot of odd images that suggests some sort of

In the beginning when the film starts it shows this man whose sharpening his knife and once he finishes it shows that as he looks at the clouds moving, he begins to move the knife across an eyeball in the same direction as clouds were going across the moon. Although this specific image was stomach-turning, I had to watch this film a few times before I was able to understand that it was not the woman’s eye that was sliced open, but instead it was some sort of animal because it did have a lot of facial hair. Hence, although this film was very short, it displayed a lot of disturbing yet eye-catching