Experimental film shorts. Fernand Léger, Dudley Murphy, and Man Ray created the film "Ballet Mécanique" (1924), sometimes described as Dadaist, Cubist, or Futurist. Duchamp created the abstract film "Anémic Cinéma" (1926). Alberto Cavalcanti directed "Rien que les heures" (1926), Walter Ruttmann directed "" (1927), and Dziga Vertov filmed "Man With a Movie Camera" (1929), experimental "city symphonies" of Paris, Berlin, and Kiev, respectively. The most famous experimental film is generally considered to be Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí's "Un chien andalou" (1929). Hans Richter's animated shorts, Oskar Fischinger's abstract films, and Len Lye's GPO films would be excellent examples of more abstract
The Spiral Staircase (1946 film) romance," the film has been noted by contemporary critics for its prominent Gothic horror elements. It has also been cited as one of numerous progenitors to the slasher film, specifically due to its female-centric cast and point-of-view cinematography deployed during scenes in which the killer stalks his victims. Film scholar Amy Golden notes several significant visual allusions in the film, such as Luis Buñuel's "Un chien andalou" (1929) and Maya Deren's "Meshes of the Afternoon" (1943). Golden cites the film as a "quintessential example of 1940s horror." Writer Denis Grunes in 2007 suggested the film is "in fact a masked