Federico García Lorca poet". He wrote: "The gypsies are a theme. And nothing more. I could just as well be a poet of sewing needles or hydraulic landscapes. Besides, this gypsyism gives me the appearance of an uncultured, ignorant and primitive poet that you know very well I'm not. I don't want to be typecast". Growing estrangement between García Lorca and his closest friends reached its climax when surrealists Dalí and Luis Buñuel collaborated on their 1929 film "Un Chien Andalou" ("An Andalusian Dog"). García Lorca interpreted it, perhaps erroneously, as a vicious attack upon himself. At this time Dalí also met his
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