Watch a Restored Version of Luis Buñuel & Salvador Dalí’s Surreal Film, Un Chien Aldalou (1929) — openculture.com

When we talk about experimental film, we talk, sooner or later, about Un Chien Andalou. One can hardly overstate the formative impact that Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí’s short film had on all cinema, whether “alternative,” “artistic,” or otherwise askew. Loosed upon the unsuspecting filmgoing world back in 1929, it’s 16 to 21 minutes (depending on the version) of pure surreality have been viewed by many, even those of us with no patience for the avant-garde. For the most part, we’ve seen versions of badly inferior quality. Inferior to what, you might ask, and I would direct you to the superior version at the top of the post, a 21st-century restoration by the Filmoteca Española, which offers an Un Chien Andalou not quite like those you’ve seen before, whether in a film studies class, on late-night television, or in some corner or another of the internet.

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