Nonlinear film emerged from the French avant-garde in 1929 with Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí's Un Chien Andalou (English: An Andalusian Dog).

The film was overshadowed by Un chien andalou (An Andalusian Dog, 1929), written and directed by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí.

"He was so generous, so nice, a truly beautiful human being," said Mr. Silberman of the man whose most famous image, from the 1929 "Andalusian Dog," graphically depicts a straight razor slicing an eyeball.

An Andalusian Dog (Un chien andalou), a short film by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí - (France)

Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog) (1928)

These include Luis Buñuel's classic "The Andalusian Dog" (1929), written with Dalí, three shorts by Man Ray and a lesser-known film by Hans Richter.

The scene where Joax, Lloyd, Jay and Ali checked in a hotel was named as Andalusian Hotel (taken from the E heads song, Andalusian Dog).

Ignacio Javier López, "Film, Freud and Paranoia: Dalí and the Representation of Male Desire in An Andalusian Dog", "'Diacritics'" 31,2 (2003): 35-48.

Two dudes in red and white leather on matching black motorcycles were profiling outside a bar called the Andalusian Dog.

At the same time, Salvador Dali, with whom he was in love, had gone off to make the film "Andalusian Dog," directed by Luis Bunuel.