Alejandro Jodorowsky
Directing
Born 1929-02-17
Tocopilla, Chile
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Alejandro Jodorowsky Prullansky, known as Alejandro Jodorowsky (born 17 February 1929) is a Chilean filmmaker, playwright, composer and writer with a large cult following. Best known for his avant-garde films, he has been "venerated by cult cinema enthusiasts" for his work which "is filled with violently surreal images and a hybrid blend of mysticism and religious provocation." His most notable works include El Topo (1970), The Holy Mountain (1973) and Santa Sangre (1989), all of which have had limited release but achieved popularity amongst various countercultural groups. He has cited the filmmaker Federico Fellini as his primary cinematic influence, and has been described as an influence on such figures as Marilyn Manson and David Lynch. After a failed attempt to return to filmmaking with a film entitled King Shot starring Marilyn Manson and produced by David Lynch, Alejandro is set to return to cinema with the sequel to El Topo entitled Abel Cain sometime in late 2011 or 2012.
Jodorowsky is also a playwright and play director, having produced over one hundred plays, primarily in Mexico where he lived for much of his life. Alongside this he is also a writer, particularly of comic books - his The Incal even has been noted as having a claim to be "the best comic book" ever written - as well as books on his own theories about spirituality. Jodorowsky has been involved in the occult and various spiritual and religious groups, including Zen Buddhism and forms of Mexican shamanism, and has formulated his own spiritual system, which he has called "psychomagic" and "psychoshamanism".
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Filmography
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The Dick Cavett Show
Drive
Eurotrash
Through the Night with...
De pé a pá
The Holy Mountain
Only God Forgives
Jodorowsky's Dune
Le Cercle
Santa Sangre
El Topo
Endless Poetry
The Severed Heads
Una belleza nueva
Kaena: The Prophecy
Violeta más viva que nunca
Tusk
Niente è come sembra
Helicopter
Léemelo
Fando and Lis
NWR
Cherif
Born Without
Doggiewoggiez! Poochiewoochiez!
The Dance of Reality
Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream
My Life Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn
Musikanten
La colorina
Arrabal, Panik Cineast
Psychomagic: A Healing Art
No Big Deal
Moebius Redux: A Life in Pictures
He! Viva Dada
A Tar
Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths
Fake News
Melodrama Sacramental
The Rainbow Thief
The Dark Fantastic
Rush to War
John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office
Bouncer
The Island
Psicotaxi
The Source Family
Una hora con Alejandro Jodorowsky
Pubertinaje
A Conversation with Alejandro Jodorowsky
Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: Alejandro Jodorowsky
The Family Forest
Blink Jodorowsky
Ritual - A Psychomagic Story
What the Forest conceals
Apolinar
The Jodorowsky Constellation
Tripping The Dark Fantastic
Anticlimax
The Voice Thief
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