Critic's Picks: Un Chien Andalou — Transcript

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1. 0:00[Music]
2. 0:19once upon a time a long time ago a
3. 0:21couple of crazy Spaniards got together
4. 0:23and made a short film their names were
5. 0:25Salvador Del and Luis buuel and the film
6. 0:27was called an andalu which means in
7. 0:30French An Andalusian Dog but this movie
8. 0:32is not about a dog it's about 15 minutes
9. 0:35of random and sometimes shocking
10. 0:37[Music]
11. 0:44images anhan andalo is a touchstone of
12. 0:47the surrealist movement an artistic
13. 0:49tendency that rebelled against
14. 0:51conventional Notions of order Beauty and
15. 0:54coherence and even now 80 years later it
16. 0:57still sees with creative revolting
17. 0:59energy
18. 1:02the images are startling and reflect the
19. 1:04surrealist obsession with sex religion
20. 1:07and the Freudian unconscious all of
21. 1:08which may amount to the same
22. 1:12thing but given the near ubiquity of
23. 1:15Salvador di posters on dorm room walls
24. 1:18modern viewers may find these images
25. 1:20somewhat
26. 1:22familiar the real innovation of anen
27. 1:24andalu Lies not in the images themselves
28. 1:27but in the radical way that they're
29. 1:28strung together buuel was among the
30. 1:31first to discover that the language of
31. 1:33Cinema could proceed beyond the
32. 1:35boundaries of sense and produce powerful
33. 1:38and strange effects and emotions the
34. 1:40logic of Anan andalo is the logic of
35. 1:48Dreams at the time it was made anhen
36. 1:50andalu may have shown more affinities
37. 1:52with poetry and painting photography and
38. 1:54other Arts than with film but in the
39. 1:56decades since movies have absorbed its
40. 1:59influence and made up the distance the
41. 2:01syntax that bunell employs has migrated
42. 2:03from experimental film to music videos
43. 2:06and even to Hollywood
44. 2:13Blockbusters to watch it now more than
45. 2:1580 years after it was made is to see all
46. 2:17of those possibilities and some as yet
47. 2:19undreamed of opening up again and again
48. 2:22and again for the very first time this
49. 2:24is an old dog with an endless supply of
50. 2:27new
51. 2:28tricks
52. 2:31[Music]