Buñuel and Dalí Films
Co-presented with The Menil Collection

This screening will be outdoors on The Menil front lawn, so bring a blanket and some hot chocolate!

In 1929 Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí shocked Parisian audiences with the 16-minute surrealist masterpiece, Un Chien Andalou (presented on 16mm), 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.