INSTRUCTIONS:
Prepare and submit a term paper on Screening Film History. Your paper should be a minimum of 2000 words in length. As such, it promoted ant art behaviors in society. Since the emergence of the surrealist movement in the 1920s, artists can establish some affinities in Surrealist cinema (Walz 2014). However, although the surrealist movement was the first literary and artistic movement to engage in film production, many artists, and historians have been criticizing Surrealist cinema as films with a distinct genre (divadaniela 2014).Indeed, critics forced Surrealist filmmakers to do their works on private practice due to their radical nature. Indeed, the first Surrealist film was The Seashell and the Clergyman produced in 1928 when Surrealist filmmakers were developing. Notably, some of the characteristics that define Surrealist cinema are shocking imagery and juxtaposition, which equally determine the influence of Surrealism in society. As such, we can use the results of surrealism to establish that surrealism depicts a dynamic piece of art, which seeks to explore the points of intersection and the points of departure in human existence. Surrealism finds cinema as a medium of expressing nullity in reality while using irrational imagery and the subconscious mind (TATE 2014). The films produced by Surrealism seek to inform the society that there is more to reality than what we see or know since reality has no limits. Such films include Un Chien Andalou.The Un Chien Andalou is a short silent French surrealist film produced in 1929 (Un Chien Andalou 1929). Luis Buñuel directed the film while Salvador Dalí scripted the Un Chien Andalou short surrealist film. The film features in the French language and runs for 17 minutes (Eight nights, fifty years of surrealism 2011). In producing this surrealist short film, Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali sought to use irrational and shocking images with an aim of provoking the norms in film art. The short surrealist film came out in the surrealist period that heightened in 1929.