Un chien andalou

An open eye is slashed in half with a razor, ants emerge from the palm of a hand, breasts dissolve into buttocks, priests are pulled along the ground, dead donkeys lie on two pianos... Made under the influence of André Breton's Surrealist Manifesto, this series of unconnected incidents designed to have the logic of a dream, was the cinematic equivalent of the surrealist's automatic writing. and so Buñuel's career as a director began with one of the most startling and most famous images in all cinema - the cutting of the eye. The film is still, as Jean Vigo stated in 1930 "a work of major importance in every respect". It was financed by Buñuel's mother, as well as the Vicomte de Noailles and 'money won by a friend on the lottery'.