‘Cine-concert: Un chien andalou’

Bozar commemorates the 100th anniversary of Surrealism with an exhibition dedicated to the renowned artistic movement in Belgium - and Brussels Philharmonic joins the celebration. This unique cine-concert kicks off with Erik Satie's ballet score for Parade, followed by an iconic avant-garde film Un chien andalou. It will be screened twice with two different soundtracks: first Scénario by Mauricio Kagel and later Tristan und Isolde by Richard Wager. In between, you'll hear Darius Milhauds Le bœuf sur le toit from 1920.

In 1917 the premiere of the ballet Parade (created by Jean Cocteau, Pablo Picasso and Léonide Massine) caused a scandal in Paris. Erik Satie composed the music - including typewriters, sirens, airplane propellers, a ticker tape, and a lottery wheel in the orchestra. Guillaume Apollinaire wrote in the accompanying text: ‘it is a surrealist spectacle’, the very first time this term was used.

Spanish director Luis Buñuel, in collaboration with Salvador Dalí, gave birth to the very first surrealist film: Un chien andalou. A series of seemingly randomly edited scenes provoke the audience, while Buñuel denies the viewer any point of reference or orientation - surrealism at its purest.