An Andalusian Dog

In that class, we studied Eisenstein's Strike and La Jetée and, oh, the, uh, uh, A Bu de Souffle, a whole bunch of more experimental films.

Chien Andalou, where its eye is s- slashed and then...

Very experiment- Night and Fog.

And, um, about, I would say, 30 years or 20 years after I had taken that class, I was emptying a box of old notebooks, and I found my notebook from that class.

And so I was like, I should watch more of his oeuvre.

But if that is like, if that is sort of like the middle ground, then, you know, I was looking, I was looking like, what should I be watching if I'm like, highbrow, 1929, Un Chien Andalou.

I don't even know what that means, but it's a Salvador Dali movie, right? Is that something I should be watching with my husband? Yeah.

I had to mute myself because I'm laughing so hard and I don't want you to have to try to edit out my laughing over you right now.

This was no, you're a good man, Charlie Brown.

We saw Le Chien Andalou, which is like the Andalusian dog in which someone slices an eye open with a razor.

There was one weekend they shepherded all of us into an auditorium to listen to Vexations.

which is a piano piece you play 840 times in a row.

In that class we studied Eisenstein's "Strike" and "La Jetée" and, uh, uh, uh, uh, "À bout de souffle," a whole bunch of more experimental films.

"Un Chien Andalou" where the eye is s-slashed, and then very experiment... "Night and Fog." And, um, about, I would say, 30 years or 20 years after I'd taken that class, I was emptying a box of old notebooks And I found my notebook from that class, and like in every other page, it had talked about the editing.

So I was definitely paying attention to it then without, still without thinking it would ever be something that I would do.

How did you choose your university and, uh, when you were, uh, in high school and what you were going to do? How, how did you choose what, you know, your path at that point?