Experimental film shorts. Fernand Léger, Dudley Murphy, and Man Ray created the film "Ballet Mécanique" (1924), sometimes described as Dadaist, Cubist, or Futurist. Duchamp created the abstract film "Anémic Cinéma" (1926). Alberto Cavalcanti directed "Rien que les heures" (1926), Walter Ruttmann directed "" (1927), and Dziga Vertov filmed "Man With a Movie Camera" (1929), experimental "city symphonies" of Paris, Berlin, and Kiev, respectively. The most famous experimental film is generally considered to be Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí's "Un chien andalou" (1929). Hans Richter's animated shorts, Oskar Fischinger's abstract films, and Len Lye's GPO films would be excellent examples of more abstract
Salvador Dalí co-creator of Luis Buñuel's surrealist film "Un Chien Andalou", a 17-minute French art film co-written with Luis Buñuel that is widely remembered for its graphic opening scene simulating the slashing of a human eyeball with a razor. In "Un Chien Andalou", surreal imagery and irrational discontinuities in time and space produce a dreamlike quality. The second film he produced with Buñuel was entitled "L'Age d'Or", and it was performed at Studio 28 in Paris in 1930. "L'Age d'Or" was "banned for years after fascist and anti-Semitic groups staged a stink bomb and ink-throwing riot in the Paris theater where it