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Un Chien Andalou premieres on 6 June 1929 with a razor-and-eye shock as public anti-empathy spectacle

On 6 June 1929 Un Chien Andalou premiered in Paris. This Fact stores the razor-eye shock as a public anti-empathy spectacle, not the film’s later archive access. In the causal graph this event weakens Humanitarian Access, a driver that strengthens People Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC) — an improving welfare path.

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On 6 June 1929 Un Chien Andalou premiered in Paris. This Fact stores the razor-eye shock as a public anti-empathy spectacle, not the film’s later archive access.

Context

Shock can break bourgeois numbness and can train cruelty as style. Split the improving film-access row. Buñuel shares authorship.

Salvador Dalí’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below.

The 6 June 1929 Paris premiere, made with Buñuel, opens with a razor across an eye. Medium confidence. The same film is an avant-garde access object on a sibling row.

Why it matters

A public mutilation-as-style opening is a humanitarian-adjacent spectacle path of medium confidence.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Salvador Dalí

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.4 · verified

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Fundació Gala-Salvador DalíFundació Gala-Salvador Dalí · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.British Film Institute — Cleopatra film heritage contextBritish Film Institute · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

BFI film-historical practice and Fundació’s film chronology independently date the 1929 premiere and its famous mutilation image.

Established: 6 June 1929 premiere including the eye-razor sequence. Not established: a unique violence series caused by one short.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorSalvador Dalí
  2. contributed toFactUn Chien Andalou premieres on 6 June 1929 with a razor-and-eye shock as public anti-empathy spectacle
  3. weakensDriverHumanitarian Access
  4. strengthensIndicatorPeople Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC)

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Factrail. (2026). Un Chien Andalou premieres on 6 June 1929 with a razor-and-eye shock as public anti-empathy spectacle. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/dal-chien-violence

https://factrail.ai/facts/dal-chien-violence

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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