The classic Un Chien andalou (1928; “An Andalusian Dog”) by the director Luis Buñuel and the Surrealist artist Salvador Dalí, financed by Buñuel’s mother, was a product of this period.

…was Un Chien andalou (1929; An Andalusian Dog), a Surrealist work made in Paris by the Spaniards Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí.

…in Un Chien andalou (1929; An Andalusian Dog), a short film in Surrealist style. Using the free-association technique pioneered by André Breton and Philippe Soupault, Buñuel and Dalí wrote the film, which Buñuel directed and Duverger photographed; Batcheff played a major role. Dalí arrived from Spain only for the last…

…Surrealistic films—Un Chien andalou (1929; An Andalusian Dog) and L’Âge d’or (1930; The Golden Age)—that are similarly filled with grotesque but highly suggestive images. During the presentation of the first film, Dalí met French poet Paul Éluard, one of the founders of Surrealism, and his wife, Gala. She married Dalí…