Salvador Dalí was shown". Both of these films, "Un Chien Andalou" and "L'Age d'Or", have had a tremendous impact on the independent surrealist film movement. "If "Un Chien Andalou" stands as the supreme record of Surrealism's adventures into the realm of the unconscious, then "L'Âge d'Or" is perhaps the most trenchant and implacable expression of its revolutionary intent". Dalí worked with other famous filmmakers, such as Alfred Hitchcock. The most well-known of his film projects is probably the dream sequence in Hitchcock's "Spellbound", which delves into themes of psychoanalysis. Hitchcock needed a dreamlike quality to his film, which dealt with the idea
The Seashell and the Clergyman The Seashell and the Clergyman The Seashell and the Clergyman () is an experimental French film directed by Germaine Dulac, from an original scenario by Antonin Artaud. It premiered in Paris on 9 February 1928. The film follows the erotic hallucinations of a priest lusting after the wife of a general. Although accounts differ, it seems that Artaud disapproved of Dulac's treatment of his scenario. The film was overshadowed by "Un chien andalou" ("An Andalusian Dog", 1929), written and directed by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí. "Un chien andalou" is considered the first surrealist film, but its foundations in "The