SIMON DEL DESIERTO

Mexico, 1965

Genre: Short, Drama

Director: Luis Bunuel

Producer: Gustavo Alatriste

Writers: Julio Alejandro, Luis Bunuel

Cast: Claudio Brook, Silvia Pinal, Hortensia Santovena*, Luis Aceves Castaneda*

Plot Summary:

The ascetic religious Simón believes he is a sinner and decides to self-inflict a sacrifice, living like a hermit on the top of a pedestal in the middle of the desert to be closer to God and resist the temptations of the world. His followers are peasants and travelers that believe that Simón is a saint capable of performing miracles and they crowd to hear his speeches. However, Satan tries to tempt him with the pleasures of the world.

Un Chien Andalou

France, 1929
Genre: Short, Fantasy
Director: Luis Buñuel
Producers: Luis Buñuel
Writers: Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dalí
Cast: Luis Buñuel, Simonne Mareuil, Young girl Pierre Batchef, Salvador Dalí

Plot Summary:
Un Chien Andalou consists of seventeen minutes of bizarre and surreal images that may or may not mean anything. A straight razor seems to be placed by a woman's eye, a small cloud formation obscures the moon, a cow's eye is slit open, a woman pokes at a severed hand in the street with his cane, a man drags two grand pianos containing dead and rotting donkeys and live priests, and a man's hand has a hole in the palm from which ants emerge.