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The Dream Factory: A Surrealist Art Film Series will make its debut today with screenings of Un Chien Andalou (The Andalousian Dog) (Buñuel/Dali, 1928) and Land Without Bread (Buñuel, 1932).
Sponsored by the art department, the films will be introduced by Alastair Noble, assistant professor of art. The series will take place noon-1 p.m. every other Wednesday through Nov. 19 in Williams Center room 108.
Un Chien Andalou opens with Buñuel in an infamous scene where he slashes the eyeball of a woman with a razor blade. After this initial disturbing image, the film proceeds with other dreamlike sequences.
Says critic Robert Ebert: “A movie like this is a tonic. It assaults old and unconscious habits of movie going. It is disturbing, frustrating, maddening. It seems without purpose (and yet how much purpose, really, is there in seeing most of the movies we attend?). There is wry humor in it, and a cheerful willingness to offend.”
In Land Without Bread, his only documentary, director Luis Buñuel exposes the squalor of a people ignored by a careless pre-Franco regime. Abel Jacquin’s sublime narration questions the need for geometry in the classroom (let alone a hanging portrait of a gaudy fairy-tale princess) when the town’s “barefooted urchins” are in such dire need of food.
The rest of the series: