Un Chien Andalou

Un chien andalou (An Andalusian Dog) is a sixteen-minute surrealist film made in France in 1929, by writer/director Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí. It is one of the best-known surrealist films of the French avant-garde film movement of the 1920s. It stars Simone Mareuil and Pierre Batcheff as the unnamed protagonists.
The film has no "plot", in the normal sense of the word. Its structure is nonlinear. It uses dream logic that can be described in terms of Freudian free association. The film is a series of apparently unrelated, and at times potentially offensive, scenes that attempt to shock the viewer. It also features surprising camera angles and other film tricks.

The film opens with a scene in which a woman's eye (actually a close-up of a calf's eye) is slit by a razor. The man with the razor is played by Buñuel himself. Subsequent scenes have less explicit violence:

• an androgynous blind woman pokes at a severed hand in the street with her cane
• a man drags two grand pianos containing dead and rotting donkeys, the tablets of the Ten Commandments, and two live priests (Dalí plays one of the priests in this scene)
• a man's hand has a hole in the palm from which ants emerge. The French phrase "ants in the palms," (which means that someone is "itching" to kill) is shown literally.
• a woman's armpit hair attaches itself to a man's face.

There are two central characters, a man and a woman, who appear in both scenes, but they are unnamed. The chronology of the film is disjointed; jumping from "once upon a time" to "eight years later," etc.