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Tierra Sin Pan Surrealism
Las Hurdes: Tierra Sin Pan directed by Luis Buñuel is an ethnographic surrealism documentary first shown in 1933. The film was not made to spew facts at its audience members but to make the audience think about what they were seeing and hearing. Buñuel’s film is a documentary but in a broad sense of what a documentary is. It is no wonder that his move is different to any other movie out there because he was forced to learn how to film himself because cameras were just starting to be used. Even though the narrator is unreliable there is much that can be learnt about the Hurdanos from Luis Buñuel’s film, land Without bread.
Many authors such as Jeffrey Ruoff and Catherine Russel call Land Without bread a work of surrealism. English Oxford
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It is as if the film is saying here are the people and now they are no longer. Due to the abrupt end, the hill scene treats the middle of the film as if it were and meat within a sandwich. The world of the Hurdanos is the meat that lays in between the bread of the Spanish. “the film is framed by the arrival and departure of the narrator-adventurer-ethnographer, marking off very clearly the boundaries between here and there, us and them” (Clifford 30). The film creates a wall between them and the outside world. Also with the hill scene at the stat and end it seems as if beyond the hill for the Hurdanos awaits death. With the ending having the set up the way It does it also feels to be saying that the lives of the Hurdanos abruptly ended. Las Hurdes: Tierra Sin Pan directed by Luis Buñuel is a piece of ethnographic surrealism and satire. The film uses many tactics that were not seen before this film because people were just starting to film. Buñuel’s Land Without bread is not a film that can be watched and taken at face value. He wanted he audience to think for themselves and make their own opinions. Due to the ever-changing scenes of the film, it is had to follow at some moments in time but is an interesting film to

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