Questions from the Film

How did this film make you feel?

What are two of the most memorable scenes

(for you) from the film?

How are the characters and the plot

connected?
What do you think are the main themes of the

film, what do you think it is about?

Un Chien Andalou (1929)

The film has no plot in the conventional sense of the

word.
The chronology of the film is disjointed, jumping
from the initial "once upon a time" to "eight years
later" without the events or characters changing
very much.
It uses dream logic in narrative flow that can be
described in terms of then-popular Freudian
free association, presenting a series of tenuously
related scenes.
This is called Non Linear Narrative or Non Linear
Storytelling.

Surrealism and Non Linear

Storytelling

Non Linear Film

Luis Bunuel- The Golden Age
Sergei Eisenstein- Strike
Orson Welles- Citizen Kane
Jean Luc Godard- Week End
Federico Fellini- 8 , Roma
Andrei Tarkovsky- The Mirror
David Lynch- Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive, Blue Velvet
Christopher Nolan- Momento
Charlie Kaufman- Being John Malkovich, Adaptation
Michel Gondry/Charlie Kaufman- Eternal Sunshine of the

Spotless Mind
Gus van Sant- Elephant, Last Days
Richard Linklater- Waking Life

Sigmund Freud: The Interpretation

of Dreams
Freud analyses dreams in order to understand

aspects of personality as well as peoples

actions.
Every action and thought is motivated by your
subconscious.
In a civilized society, we have to hold our
urges and impulses back and these are
released through our dreams

So What the ^$%@ is

Surrealism?
FREUD+THE SUBCONSCIOUS
LUIS BUNUEL AND SALVADOR DALI
ACTIVATING THE SUBCONSCIOUS AND

CREATING IT INTO A REALITY.

AUTOMATIC THINKING

NON LINEAR

NARRATIVE/STORYTELLING

Automatic Drawing The Exquisite

Corpse Method
Take a piece of paper.
Fold it consecutively like a hotdog.
Draw on one hot dog section, make sure your

lines peak out to the other section.

Fold over to blank side. Another person draws.
Repeats process.
Keep passing until the paper is complete. Unfold.
There are many different methods to automatic
drawing, this is just one of them.
Same method for Automatic writing, except you
alternate with sentence writing.

Antonin Artaud
Dark Poet
Dark Poet, a maid's breast
Haunts you,
Embittered poet, life seethes
And life burns,
And the sky reabsorbs itself in rain,
Your pen scratches at the heart of life.
Forest, forest, alive with your eyes,
On multiple pinions;
With storm-bound hair,
The poets mount horses, dogs.
Eyes fume, tongues stir,
The heavens surge into our senses
Like blue mother's milk;
Women, harsh vinegar hearts,
I hang suspended from your mouths.
Umbilical Limbo 1926