Reading Intermediality: Lorca’s Viaje a la luna (“Journey to the Moon,” 1929) and Un chien andalou (Buñuel/Dalí, 1929)

• Published in: Modern languages open no. 1
• Main Author: Smith, Paul Julian
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English; Catalan
• Published: Liverpool University Press 01.10.2014
• Subjects: Lorca, Buñuel, Dalí, film
• ISSN: 2052-5397; 2052-5397
• DOI: 10.3828/mlo.v0i1.4

This article will treat two experimental short films, the first one of the most famous in cinema history; the second a little known script, lost for many years and brought to the screen only sixty years after it was written. The former is Un chien andalou of 1929, generally attributed to both director Luis Buñuel and Catalan painter Salvador Dalí (who claims first screenwriting credit in the film itself). The latter is Viaje a la luna , written also in 1929 by poet and dramatist Federico García Lorca and filmed by Frederic Amat, a contemporary Catalan painter, in 1998, the centenary of Lorca’s birth.