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
The Seashell and the Clergyman The Seashell and the Clergyman The Seashell and the Clergyman () is an experimental French film directed by Germaine Dulac, from an original scenario by Antonin Artaud. It premiered in Paris on 9 February 1928. The film follows the erotic hallucinations of a priest lusting after the wife of a general. Although accounts differ, it seems that Artaud disapproved of Dulac's treatment of his scenario. The film was overshadowed by "Un chien andalou" ("An Andalusian Dog", 1929), written and directed by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí. "Un chien andalou" is considered the first surrealist film, but its foundations in "The