Saturday, March 24, 2007

Eye Allegories

I teach a remarkable animated short film from time to time entitled An Eye for Annai by Jon Klassen and Dan Rodrigues--those of you digging the semiotic/film theory dimension of this class will find it moving I think.

Here's another peculiar short film that theatricalize's some of the more theoretical elements of our graduate and undergraduate seminars in an accessible, if allegorical fashion.



Both owe their debt, to a greater or lesser degree, the the surrealist shenanigans of Salvador Dali and Luis Buñuel in Un Chien Andalou:

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