Born Villain Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel's 1929 silent film "Un Chien Andalou". The pair met at a Kills concert, after which LaBeouf screened "Maniac" – his directorial collaboration with rappers Kid Cudi and Cage – and then offered to direct the band's next music video. A coffee table book of photographs, entitled "Campaign", was released concomitantly with the film. The book, which was bundled with a DVD of the film, was created by LaBeouf and photographer Karolyn Pho, and consists of images of various locations in LA graffiti-tagged with handbills of the film's artwork. It was released exclusively through the Hollywood
Art film make "art films", and film critics did not use the term "art film". However, there were films that had sophisticated aesthetic objectives, such as Carl Theodor Dreyer's "The Passion of Joan of Arc" (1928) and "Vampyr" (1932), surrealist films such as Luis Buñuel's "Un chien andalou" (1929) and "L'Âge d'Or" (1930), or even films dealing with political and current-event relevance such as Sergei Eisenstein's famed and influential masterpiece "Battleship Potemkin". The U.S. film "" (1927) by German Expressionist director F. W. Murnau uses distorted art design and groundbreaking cinematography to create an exaggerated, fairy-tale-like world rich with symbolism and imagery.