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Buñuel

Festival
Kumu Dokumentaal 2022
Programme
Kumu Documentary

Films

Buñuel: A Surrealist Film-maker

Local title
Buñuel. Sürrealist
Title in Russian
Original title
Buñuel, un cineasta surrealista
Director
Javier Espada
Country
Spain
Year
2021
Programme
Kumu Documentary

Luis Buñuel, pioneer of the purest surrealist cinema beginning with An Andalusian Dog. Although he wanted to abandon surrealism after The Golden Age, he made continuous references to surrealist postulates during his cinematographic career in Mexico and later in France and Spain.
Buñuel never ceased to cultivate these principles, which emerged from his childhood, elements that, like dreams, formed parts of his most basic creative principles and shaped a large part of the unique quality of his cinema. Buñuel’s films, like Goya's paintings, have echoed in the creative paths of film-makers, writers, painters and playwrights. This documentary will allow a new generation of young viewers to discover this universal film-maker. Buñuel’s vision remains provocative, and is enhanced by his links with art and literature.

PS. After the documentary, the short film An Andalusian Dog will be screened.

Introduction by film journalist Tõnu Karjatse.

Director
Javier Espada
Producer
Emilio Ruiz Barrachina
DoP
Ignacio Ferrando Margeli
Editor
Carlos Ballonga, Benito Sierra, Jorge Yetano
Production
Tolocha Producciones
Runtime
Language
Spanish
Subtitles
English
Trailer

An Andalusian Dog

Local title
Andaluusia koer
Title in Russian
Original title
Un chien andalou
Director
Luis Buñuel
Country
France
Year
1929
Programme
Kumu Documentary
Subject
surrealism

Un Chien Andalou is a 1929 silent surrealist short film by Spanish director Luis Buñuel and artist Salvador Dalí. Buñuel's first film, it was initially released in a limited capacity at Studio des Ursulines in Paris, but became popular and ran for eight months.

Director
Luis Buñuel
Runtime
Subtitles
English