Surrealist Short Films program:
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-- Introduced by Prof. Anne-Gaëlle Saliot (Romance Studies)!

La coquille et le clergyman (The Seashell and the Clergyman)
(Germaine Dulac, 1928, 31 min, B&W, DVD)
Obsessed with a general's woman, a clergyman has strange visions of death and lust, struggling against his own eroticism.

Un chien andalou
(Luis  Buñuel, 1929, 16 min, B&W, 35mm!)
In a dream-like sequence, a woman's eye is slit open - juxtaposed with a similarly shaped cloud obscuring the moon moving in the same direction as the knife through the eye - to grab the audience's attention. The French phrase 'ants in the palms,' (which means that someone is 'itching' to kill) is shown literally. A man pulls a piano along with the tablets of the Ten Commandments and a dead donkey towards the woman he's itching to kill. A shot of differently striped objects is repeatedly used to connect scenes.

L'Age d'Or
(Luis Buñuel & Salvador Dali, 1930, 63 min, B&W, 35mm!)
A man and a woman are passionately in love with one another, but their attempts to consummate that passion are constantly thwarted, by their families, the Church and bourgeois society.

Cost: Free and Open to the Public!

Sponsors: The Program in Arts of the Moving Image, with support from The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation.