I have been doing a lot of thinking about what I could do for my short film since the end of my AS project. I am very happy with what I produced at AS, however now I really want to push the boundaries of film. I recently was told to watch "Un Chien Andalous" by Spanish director Luis Bunuel and artist Salvador Dali. Although it was extremely shocking and surrealist, I found it memorising and began to get many ideas to perhaps include in short film of my own. I found out that in surrealism the director would often open the film, or play with something shocking. In the case of Un Chien Andalous this was in the form of a girl getting her eye slit open. 
Although this was an incredibly shocking image, it really drew me in as an audience member and I was intrigued as to what meaning was actually behind this. Other shocking images included ants crawling out of a mans hand and a hand that had been cut off just lying on the road.
Although some may see it as madness I was just inspired and I wanted to delve deeper into the surrealist movement to try and understand the motives behind what Dali and Bunuel were thinking.
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