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
Rain (1929 film) they sought expression through a film's rhythm and movement—the characteristics which, according to these artists, made film a unique medium. They believed a film could create its own world, whether through thought–provoking Absurdism in a piece like Buñuel and Dali's "Un Chien Andalou" or purely through form, as in Dziga Vertov's "Man with a Movie Camera". "Rain" closely adheres to this prioritization of a film's formalistic qualities. The short film focuses primarily on composition and rhythm, visually following the patterns of raindrops and people as they try to negotiate with each other in their movements through the city. Ivens's efforts