Are there any other films like Slavador Dali's "Un Chien Andalou"?

Question

I am looking for the strange, bizarre, and disturbing films that have been made purely as a type of "shock treatment" for the audience. For example, Salvador Dali's "Un Chien Andalou". Movies that make no sense what-so-ever but are somewhat ahead of thier time with thier special effects and strange story. Are there any other films like that?

Answer 1

Un Chien Andalou, by Salvador Dali and Luis Buñel is the definitive film of the Surrealist movement. Dali made one more film with Buñel, L'Age D'Or. Buñel went on to make many more movies. None were quite so bizarre as the first two, but they all had some elements of surrealism to them. There are other surrealist films, but I don't know how available they are. There was also a lively underground/experimental cinema movement in the 60's which while different from surrealism was also active in pushing the boundaries of cinema.

Answer 2

Yes, there are many. If you liked "Un Chien Andalou," you should continue with "L'Age d'Or." While Dali was the artistic director for "Un Chien Andalou," the actual director was Spanish surrealist filmmaker Luis Bunuel, who made pictures in Spain, France, and Mexico over a period of decades.

"L'Age d'Or" is his film most like "Un Chien Andalou." You might like some of his later films also, in particular "Angel Exterminador" or "La Discrete Charme de la Bourgeoisie."

Other possibilities of movies that have no conventional plot but confront and shock the audience:

---Jean-Luc Godard's "Week-end"
---any of the films of Kenneth Anger, especially "Scorpio Rising," "Lucifer Rising," "Inauguration of the Pleasuredome," and "Invocation of My Demon Brother"