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Categories: Film
Keywords: Aggression | Montage
Relevant passages:
Rudolf Frieling «Reality/Mediality
Hybrid Processes Between Art and Life»
Buñuel, Luis; Dali, Salvador
«The Andalusian Dog»
«Night. On a balcony. Close by, a man sharpens his razor. He studies the sky through the pane and sees...a wisp of cloud drifting toward a full moon. Cut to: the head of a young woman with her eyes wide open. One of her eyes nears the razor’s blade. Now the cloud passes over the moon. The blade splices the eye of the young woman.» (Excerpt from the film script)
Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali deliberately planned their film to provoke, and as a vehicle for scandal, in order to transport the spirit of the Surrealist Revolution into the world of cinema as well. The provocations and multiple meanings of symbolism were targeted at disrupting the accustomed, rational logic. At the same time, with his piercing stare at reality Buñuel denied himself the formal visual tricks and experiments used by the Impressionists and representatives of abstract filmmaking.
(Source: Ulrich Gregor/Enno Patalas, «Geschichte des Films 1895–1939», vol. 1, Reinbek, 1976, pp. 75f.)
