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

Date: 1929

## The fact

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.

It is one event.

## Context

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

[Salvador Dalí](/people/salvador-dali)’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death.

The 6 June 1929 Paris premiere, made with Buñuel, opens with a razor across an eye. Analogical humanitarian-adjacent harm: a public rehearsal of mutilation as entertainment. Medium confidence. The same film is an avant-garde access object on a sibling row.
Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers date the row.

## Evidence and sources

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

Official or archival record: Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí (https://www.salvador-dali.org/en/; Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí).

## Significance

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

Keep the archive-access sibling separate.

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

## What is established and what is not

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

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by Salvador Dalí.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date, signatory, or non-occurrence; a demonstrated forgery; or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of other causes.

They are not a public rating.

## People

- Salvador Dalí: https://factrail.ai/people/salvador-dali

## Drivers

- Humanitarian Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/humanitarian-access

## Sources

- https://www.salvador-dali.org/en/
- https://www.bfi.org.uk/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

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