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
Filmmaking technique of Luis Buñuel were explained as having been put there to increase the running time. As a university student, Buñuel had studied entomology at the Museum of Natural History under the famous naturalist Ignacio Bolívar, and he had an early and lasting interest in the scientific documentaries of Jean Painlevé, which he tried to screen at the Residencia de Estudiantes. Numerous critics have commented on the number of sequences in his films involving insects, from the death's head moth in "Un chien andalou" and the extended scorpion scenes in "L'Age d'or" to the framed tarantula in "Le Fantôme de la liberté". Others have