Buñuel and Dalí Films

Co-presented with The Menil Collection Friday, February 12, 7:30PM Location: The Menil Collection, 1533 Sul Ross, Front Lawn Free Admission This screening will be outdoors, so bring a blanket and some hot chocolate! Un Chien Andalou will be presented on 16mm! In 1929 Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí shocked Parisian audiences with the 16-minute surrealist masterpiece, Un Chien Andalou, which featured cross-dressing, a razor blade slicing an eye, dead donkeys on a piano, ants in a hand, sexual fetishism, and a rich array of images drawn straight from the dreams of its young creators. Luis Buñuel decided that the next film should be longer and even more upsetting to mainstream audiences. Although he and Dalí had worked together so effortlessly in creating the scenario for Un Chien Andalou, they would spend the rest of their lives arguing over who contributed what to the scenario of what became known as L’Age d’Or. Audiences are welcome to view Dalí’s painting, The Secret of the Hanging Egg on view at The Menil Collection.