Salvador Dalí’s animated film project created with Walt Disney was Destino.
Destino began as a collaboration between Dalí and Walt Disney in 1945. The project combined animation with Surrealist imagery and was planned around a song by Mexican composer Armando Domínguez. Production did not reach completion at the time, partly because of financial pressures affecting the Disney studio after the Second World War.
The project was revived decades later by Disney animator John Hench and Roy E. Disney. Their team used surviving artwork, storyboards, and concepts from the original collaboration to complete the short film. Destino was finally released in 2003, long after both Dalí and Walt Disney had died.
Destino is sometimes mistaken for a conventional Disney feature because of the company’s name, but it is a short experimental film. Its imagery includes shifting landscapes, dancers, and transformations that reflect Dalí’s visual language.