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...surrealists were not just interested in art,” she says. “It wasn’t just a style. They wanted to change the world. Even Luis Bu??uel in ‘Un chien andalou’ and in his other films, you know, he writes about how what he wants is to wake up the audience because they have a tendency to let themselves be lulled into quietness and sleep. So there’s a kind of anarchist tendency in Surrealism but also just an impulse to question and to contest authority...
Very close to the beginning of the 28-minute silent film, Bu??uel, who directed the film with Salvador Dalí, stands calmly behind a seated young woman with a razor in his hand. Lifting the razor, he draws it swiftly across the surface of her eye, making a piece of the cornea fall away...
Suleiman explains that viewers revolted by the violence of the image are not alone: Bu??uel himself claimed to feel sick for a week afterwards despite the fact that the eye was not actually a human one, but rather a calf’s eye he had bought specially for the film. Even so, she says, the scene is remarkably rich and thought-provoking—more so because Bu??uel is a part...
...kind of a statement about associations and metaphor, cutting an eye is like a cloud slicing the moon,” she says. “And then it’s also about filmmaking. You can argue that the cut is what filmmaking is about. So Bu??uel puts himself in it I think partially as a commentary on film. Film is a cut. And also he had a theory that film should be a kind of violence and a provocation to the viewer, you know, it’s supposed to wake...
...University spokesman Colin D. Riley explains, “BU has more beds than any private college in the country, but we would much rather give students a hotel room than squeeze a third person into a double.” And conveniently, the hotels are happy to house BU??s overflow. Pia Kalmkeryan, the Holiday Inn’s Assistant Front Office Manager, says “the students have been very courteous to our staff, and I have yet to hear a single complaint about noise.” BU Director of Residence Life David...