The film that attacks you

Surrealist filmmaking rejected traditional narrative for something far more primal. In the nineteen twenties, Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí collaborated on a groundbreaking short film that drew directly from dreams and the unconscious mind, according to Psyche. The result was a work designed not to entertain, but to disturb and provoke — a film that, in Dalí's vision, would attack the viewer's rational mind. Nearly a century later, their experiment remains one of cinema's most audacious challenges to what film could be.

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