Craziest silent film ever...

Luriden · Post by **Luriden** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 1:01 am

Pixies - Debaser was written about it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQRmZvSo6Z0

and here's a wikipedia about it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Un_chien_andalou

greay · Post by **greay** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 1:57 am

What do you expect from Dali?

Luriden · Post by **Luriden** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 3:08 am

greay wrote:What do you expect from Dali?

Never heard of him until this.

Post by **Roofus** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 3:27 am

Freaky Keneaki wrote:
greay wrote:What do you expect from Dali?
Never heard of him until this.

...wow

CupNoodle · Post by **CupNoodle** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 3:31 am

Roofus beat me to it.

Post by **|darc|** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 3:38 am

Freaky Keneaki wrote:
greay wrote:What do you expect from Dali?
Never heard of him until this.

Uh..?

You HAVE seen this painting before, right?

S. Thompson · Post by **S. Thompson** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 9:09 am

Darcus Magnus wrote:
Freaky Keneaki wrote:
greay wrote:What do you expect from Dali?
Never heard of him until this.
Uh..?

You HAVE seen this painting before, right?

I have it hanging in my living room.

This film really intrigues me - is it on DVD or anything?

- Fuzmeister

Luriden · Post by **Luriden** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 11:23 am

Darcus Magnus wrote:
Freaky Keneaki wrote:
greay wrote:What do you expect from Dali?
Never heard of him until this.
Uh..?

You HAVE seen this painting before, right?

I've seen a melting clock before, but I've never actually seen the painting as a whole.

Lartrak · Post by **Lartrak** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 1:00 pm

I saw this a few months ago. Interesting short as an artistic piece. Has one of the most effectively flinch-inducing moments I've seen in a film in the first couple minutes.

I also found some of it pretty funny in how bizzare they are - the guy dragging a piano with priests and a dead mule on it, for instance.

There's a DVD with a documentary about it that is three times longer than the short. It's expensive though, like $30 last I checked.

As a final note, there isn't any deeper meaning to the film. Dali and the other guy who made it (a very good film maker who also wrote the music that is now attached to it... Can't remember his name though) deliberately impossible to follow.

not just souLLy now · Post by **not just souLLy now** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 1:15 pm

Weird, was at the tate gallery looking at a bunch of Dali paintings today...

It's a shame the film quality is so low, it makes some of the details impossible to make out. Great stuff though, it reminds me of my times in media classes, watching bizarre early experimental cinema.

jonse · Post by **jonse** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 3:05 pm

Last time I was at Tate they were playing this film. The director is Luis Bunuel by the way.

butters · Post by **butters** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 3:24 pm

I got to the part where the eye was sliced open and that was enough for me.

Post by **melancholy** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 6:41 pm

Ball State has the coolest book ever; an original printing of Alice in Wonderland illustrated by Dali. It was the most amazing book ever to look through. And probably the most expensive book I've ever held too.

ace · Post by **ace** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 9:40 pm

Kenichi, how the fuck could you have never heard of Salvidor Dali before?

Luriden · Post by **Luriden** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 9:41 pm

ace wrote:Kenichi, how the fuck could you have never heard of Salvidor Dali before?

Because I couldn't give two shits about art? I've taken two art classes before and the name never came up, and if it did it's probably because I wasn't paying attention. But I doubt it.

impetus · Post by **impetus** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 12:44 am

wow - I love Dali but never knew he'd directed any films!

MulletMan13 · Post by **MulletMan13** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 1:03 am

Prepare to be mindfreaked:

Andy Warhol directed movies too.

[all right, a lot of people know that... specifically the short where he filmed the face of some guy while he was getting a bj, or the 16 hour camera fixed on the Empire State building.]

Lartrak · Post by **Lartrak** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 1:27 am

MulletMan13 wrote:Prepare to be mindfreaked:

Andy Warhol directed movies too.

[all right, a lot of people know that... specifically the short where he filmed the face of some guy while he was getting a bj, or the 16 hour camera fixed on the Empire State building.]

He also did a few extremely long take films, one with a 30 minuteish take about two gay men.