Luis Buñuel co-directed Un Chien Andalou with Salvador Dalí in 1929.
The short French-language film was made in Paris and became an important early work of cinematic Surrealism. Buñuel directed the film, while Dalí contributed to its conception and screenplay. Its imagery follows dream logic rather than a conventional plot, using abrupt transitions and unsettling visual motifs.
The project grew from ideas developed by the two Spaniards. They aimed to avoid interpretations based on psychology, symbolism, or ordinary narrative cause and effect. The film’s opening image is particularly famous and deliberately shocking.
Un Chien Andalou helped establish Buñuel and Dalí within the Parisian Surrealist movement. Their later collaboration, L’Age d’Or, appeared in 1930, although their relationship became strained afterward. The film title is French and is commonly translated as An Andalusian Dog.