By the time he collaborated with Luis Buñuel on their first Surrealist film, Un chien Andalou (1929), Dalí had developed some fascinating ideas about photography and cinema in his writings. Take a closer look at some of these ideas, showing how they shaped Buñuel and Dalí’s infamous film, and place Dalí’s ideas about film within the larger context of Surrealism and avant-garde cinema of the 1920s.

Malcolm Turvey, professor, History of Art and Architecture, Tufts University