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
Maya Deren influence because of the surreal nature of "Meshes of the Afternoon". Bunuel's "Un Chien Andalou" (1928) is on the premier examples of film representing the structure of the subconscious. Deren detested this comparison because of the surrealist movement's interest in the entertainment value of its subject more than its meaning. The form of "Meshes of the Afternoon" does not compare to Un Chien Andalou either. Psychoanalysis of "Meshes of the Afternoon" from a Freudian viewer or Jungian viewer attempted to decode the symbolism in the film to uncover what Deren was saying about identity and sexuality. Deren adamantly objected her