Un Chien Andalou

Un Chien Andalou is a 1929 French silent short film directed by Luis Bunuel and co-written with Salvador Dali, built from a sequence of dreamlike, deliberately illogical images rather than a conventional narrative, most notoriously an opening shot in which a woman's eye appears to be sliced open with a razor. Bunuel and Dali devised the film's images specifically to resist rational interpretation, drawing on their involvement with the Surrealist movement then centered in Paris, and the film became one of the movement's defining cinematic statements. Its premiere screening, attended by prominent Surrealists including Andre Breton, helped establish Bunuel as a major filmmaker, and the short remains widely studied as one of the first and most influential works of Surrealist cinema.