Alejandro Jodorowsky
Also Known As: Alexandro Jodorowsky, Alexandre Jodorowski, 알레한드로 호도로프스키, 알레한드로 조도로프스키, 알레한도로 호도로프스키, 알레한도로 조도로프스키, 亚历山大·尤杜洛斯基
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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". Description above from the Wikipedia article Alejandro Jodorowsky, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Tocopilla, Chile
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Birthday: February 17, 1929
Age: 96 years old
Gender: Male
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The Holy Mountain
Overview: The Alchemist assembles together a group of people from all walks of life to represent the planets in the solar system. The occult adept's intention is to put his recruits through strange mystical rites and divest them of their worldly baggage before embarking on a trip to Lotus Island. There they ascend the Holy Mountain to displace the immortal gods who secretly rule the universe.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-11-29
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El Topo
Overview: El Topo decides to confront warrior Masters on a trans-formative desert journey he begins with his 6 year old son, who must bury his childhood totems to become a man.
Genres: Adventure Drama Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1970-12-18
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The Severed Heads
Overview: A short mime adaptation of a Thomas Mann story about a Parisian urchin who makes her living selling human heads. Lost for nearly 50 years, the movie was found in 2006 by the son of Ruth Michelly and Saul Gilbert when he found it in his mom's attic in Munich.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-03-31
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Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream
Overview: From 1970-1977, six low budget films shown at midnight transformed the way we make and watch films.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-06-20
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Jodorowsky's Phylosophycal Tales
Overview: These are initiation tales of A. Jodorowsky, tales and legends adapted from ancestral traditions, from all continents, and drawing their source from the heart of Jewish, African and Oriental traditions. Imagine real characters shot in Chinese shadow, encrusted in drawn sets. Add a 2D animation, bewitching music, and the unique voice of Alejandro. The result will be a mixture, where distant legends mix with mystery, poetry, and magic.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-05-01
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The Jodorowsky Constellation
Overview: This documentary depicts the filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky talking about his life, his loves, his career as a filmmaker, graphic novelist, and workshop leader, and his eccentricities including tarot reader and theatrical director during The Panic Movement. Directed by Louis Mouchet, La Constellation Jodorowsky includes a lengthy on-camera interview with Jodorowsky in Spanish with subtitles. Marcel Marceau, Fernando Arrabal, Peter Gabriel, Jean "Moebius" Giraud, and Jean Pierre Vignau make appearances discussing their various projects with the director. In addition to the interview and film clips, Mouchet features some bizarre footage from Jodorowsky’s absurdist plays in which topless women splattered with paint writhe around the stage in a theatrical production meant to represent The Panic Movement, i.e., an artistic expression in which reason cannot fully express the human experience.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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No Big Deal
Overview: Three sons are sent on a journey to trace their father's checkered past.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-03-05
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La Voz Eterna
Overview: The final entry in Jodorowsky's autobiographical trilogy.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: es
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Musikanten
Overview: During research for a series focused on the greatest scientists of the past, a TV producer, following a hypnosis experiment, finds herself catapulted into the 19th century, participating in the last years of Ludwig Van Beethoven's life.
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 2006-03-03
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The Island
Overview: In Paris, Sophie and Daneel make a solid couple. Nothing, it seems, can separate them - until the day when Sophie tells her partner she has organised a surprise trip to Bulgaria. Daneel refuses to go, but Sophie insists and soon discovers just why her soul mate was so reluctant to set foot in the country...
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-05-16
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In Search of Moebius
Overview: Documentary about Frenchman Jean Giraud, one of the most influential comic strip illustrators and authors of all time and also one of the genre's best kept secrets. He achieved his greatest fame under the pseudonym/alter ego Moebius, and his artistic influence extends beyond Europe to the USA and Japan. Features interviews with Giraud himself, Marvel Comics legend Stan Lee, American comic book artists Jim Lee and Mike Mignolla and many others.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-23
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The Dance of Reality
Overview: “Having broken away from my illusory self, I was desperately seeking a path and a meaning to life.” This phrase perfectly sums up Alejandro Jodorowsky’s biographical project: reconstituting the incredible adventure of his life. Alejandro Jodorowsky was born in 1929 in Tocopilla, a coastal town on edge of the Chilean desert, where this film was shot. It was there where he discovered the fundamentals of reality, as he underwent an unhappy and alienated childhood as part of an uprooted family.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2013-06-19
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Jodorowsky's Dune
Overview: Shot in France, England, Switzerland and the United States, this documentary covers director Alejandro Jodorowsky (El Topo, Holy Mountain, Santa Sangre) and his 1974 Quixotic attempt to adapt the seminal sci-fi novel Dune into a feature film. After spending 2 years and millions of dollars, the massive undertaking eventually fell apart, but the artists Jodorowsky assembled for the legendary project continued to work together. This group of artists, or his “warriors” as Jodorowsky named them, went on to define modern sci-fi cinema with such films as Alien, Blade Runner, Star Wars and Total Recall.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-08-30
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Ritual - A Psychomagic Story
Overview: The fragile Lia suffers from a deep depression. Her relationship with her boyfriend Viktor is getting worse and worse and in the last desperate attempt to cure herself, Lia goes to visit her old aunt Agata in her creepy 18th century villa.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2013-04-20
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Arrabal, Panik Cineast
Overview: Documentary about the filmmaker Fernando Arrabal.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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NWR
Overview: A documentary about Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn, winner of the Best Director award at the Cannes Festival in 2011 for Drive. From his childhood to the shooting of his next movie, Only God Forgives, in Thailand, discover the whole career of a truly visionary filmmaker. With Ryan Gosling, Mads Mikkelsen, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Gaspar Noé, Peter Peter and Zlatko Buric.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-02-02
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Melodrama Sacramental
Overview: The Panic Movement performed theatrical events designed to be shocking, as a response to surrealism becoming petite bourgeoisie and to release destructive energies in search of peace and beauty. One four-hour performance known as Melodrama Sacramentral was staged in May 1965 at the Paris Festival of Free Expression. The "happening" starred Jodorowsky dressed in motorcyclist leather and featured him slitting the throats of two geese, taping two snakes to his chest and having himself stripped and whipped. Other scenes included a staged murder of a rabbi, a crucified chicken, a giant vagina giving birth to Jodorowsky, naked women covered in honey and the throwing of live turtles into the audience.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-05-01
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Tripping The Dark Fantastic
Overview: Showcasing a live performance at Earth Theatre, London in 2021 and interviews with the artists he has collaborated with from over 35 years of scoring horror, fantasy and genre films, TRIPPING THE DARK FANTASTIC is a stunning record of musician Simon Boswell’s career. An exciting trip through such classics as PHENOMENA, DEMONS 2, STAGE FRIGHT, SANTA SANGRE, PERDITA DURANGO, LORD OF ILLUSIONS, SHALLOW GRAVE, HARDWARE and many others, peppered with appearances by the likes of directors Dario Argento, Alejandro Jodorowsky, the concert features Simon with his 12 piece band, Caduta Massi, filmed by acclaimed DOP Vince Knight.
Genres: Documentary Horror Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-10-29
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Psicotaxi
Overview: Fresnadillo wheel an impromptu consultation with Alejandro Jodorowsky, while driving in a taxi in the streets of Paris.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-07-02
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My Life Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn
Overview: A documentary directed by Winding Refn's wife, Liv Corfixen, and it follows the Danish-born filmmaker during the making of his 2013 film Only God Forgives.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-02-27
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The Family Forest
Overview: Epigenetics and psychogenealogy through a VERY personal experience.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
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Moebius Redux: A Life in Pictures
Overview: French artist and author Jean Giraud is one of the most famous and influential comic strip illustrators and authors of all time. He achieved his greatest fame as Moebius - not so much a pseudonym as an alter ego. With his triple-split personality - Jean Giraud, Moebius, Gir - he succeeded in making his work accessible in popular comic strip series like Blueberry, in metaphysical fantasies like John Difool and, not least, to a broad public, with set designs for films such as The Fifth Element. In Moebius Redux - A Life in Pictures an exceptional artist tells his life's and work's story. Extraordinary views on Paris, Los Angeles and the Mexican desert build a visual link between his life and his artistic universe, accompanied by the electronic soundtrack composed by "Kraftwerk" legend Karl Bartos.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-05-13
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Alejandro Jodorowsky - Conversations on the Way of the Tarot
Overview: Conversations on the Way of the Tarot follows a 2005 tour of Italian theaters. Jodorowsky and Marianne Costa start from the public reading of the Tarot, to heal" with their psychomagical advice and dispense ingenious tales that, through laughter, lead us toward deep reflection. For this is the atmosphere one breathes in the company of Jodorowsky, in the theater as well as in his home in Paris, where he tells us about himself in a long and intense interview-conversation. He talks to us about autobiographical memories, his relationship with other art forms and the Tarot de Marseille, which he personally helped restore, and about the profound and unique idea of Planetary Man, an idea that knowledge of the Tarot can help us develop. Translated with DeepL.com (free version)
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
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Endless Poetry
Overview: A portrait of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s young adulthood, set in the 1940s and 50s, in the electric capital city of Santiago. There, he decides to become a poet and is introduced, by destiny, into the foremost bohemian and artistic circle of the time.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2016-03-23
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Alejandro Jodorowsky and the Seagulls
Overview: Alejandro Jodorowsky feeds a flock of seagulls.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-12-31
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Alejandro Jodorowsky's Social Psychomagic
Overview: A short documentary about Alejandro Jodorowsky's therapeutic practice of psychomagic.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-12-31
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Anticlimax
Overview: The Mexican Gelsen Gas side by side with Alexandro Jodorowsky (Fando y Lis, El Topo, The Holy Mountain and others) appeared as a theater director, artist and poet, had an idea about staging haiku's that would reflect the sexually-charged and politically streaming time. Early in the film finds a man buried a few rolls of film in the desert.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1969-01-04
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Cherif
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Genres: Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2002-06-04
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Forget Everything You Have Ever Seen: The World of Santa Sangre
Overview: After his dream project DUNE fell apart, visionary filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky took a break from cinema, only to return over a decade later with his most triumphant work: SANTA SANGRE.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-01-25
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Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths
Overview: This documentary consists mainly of archive interviews of Jean Cocteau, and it features interesting contributions by Jean Marais and especially Jean-Luc Godard, who discusses Cocteau's foray into cinema. The film documents all the artistic media explored by a man who defined himself, first and foremost, as a poet.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-02-22
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La colorina
Overview: Portrait of the Chilean poet Stella Díaz Varín (1926 -2006), who was called “La colorina” because of her red hair. Anarchist, communist, agitator, boxer, grandmother, alcoholic — the first punk in history, as it were. Based on accounts of fellow-travelers.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2008-03-10
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He! Viva Dada
Overview: Report from the second free expression festival organized at the American Cultural Center, Boulevard Raspail, in May 1965. The shows, all happenings inspired by ""théâtre panique/ the panic theater", includes Fernando Arrabal, Roland Topor and Alejandro Jodorowsky.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-09-05
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Born Without
Overview: 'Born Without' is a documentary about severely handicapped Mexican actor and musician Jose Flores. "Born without arms and other limbs, Jose supports his large family by playing the harmonica throughout Mexico. In the face of adversity, he shows great courage and spiritual strength. This is a film with multiple layers. It is about sharing, daring and being grateful for what we have. It is also an exploration of social values, some of them controversial. Many of Jose's choices have been strongly criticized by his family and people around him. As a result, this is also a film about self discovery: a way to explore what we judge ... and what we choose to accept and forgive."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2008-01-26
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Helicopter
Overview: To heal the wounds of his family and spirit, Director Ari Gold goes on an epic two year journey to complete a "Psychomagic assignment" given to him by filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-01-15
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Violeta más viva que nunca
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Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2017-01-06
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A Conversation with Alejandro Jodorowsky
Overview: This six minute interview with director Alejandro Jodorowsky can be found on the release of EL TOPO, his 1970 cult classic that many consider to be a masterpiece.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-05-01
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Alejandro Jodorowsky: Interview at ICA London December 2002
Overview: The footage is recorder in ICA, London, in December 2002 and features Jodorowsky on-stage after the screening of "Santa Sangre".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Niente è come sembra
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2007-10-22
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Fando and Lis
Overview: Fando and his partially paralyzed lover Lis search for the mythical city of Tar. Based on Jodorowsky's memories of a play by surrealist Fernando Arrabal.
Genres: Romance Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1970-02-02
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Psychomagic: A Healing Art
Overview: Explores the therapeutic work of director Alejandro Jodorowsky, showing by means of real acts, what Psychomagic is, its principle, how it is practiced, and how it is applied in life. Jodorowsky works directly with real, suffering people who are eager to solve their problems.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-10-02
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Blink Jodorowsky
Overview: One in a series of projects by Simon Boswell, an audio-visual installation of portraits extracted from news footage, looped to last forever, and individually scored with their own soundtracks.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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Fake News
Overview: After stealing a gaming console from migrants, Sébastien tries to sell it to Patrick, a good guy. So far, nothing too serious. But when a rapper straight out of jail, a TV host willing to do anything to go viral and click traffickers get involved... Sébastien and Patrick become France’s most wanted bad guys.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-09-08
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A Ship of Madness: Deeper and Higher with Pazucus
Overview: With free eyes, an open heart, good friends and a handful of luck, Gurcius Gewdner revisits some of his adventures of the past five years, survives the relentless Russian winter and asks the following question: How far can an underground Brazilian film go?
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2021-04-09
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Una hora con Alejandro Jodorowsky
Overview: Part behind-the-scenes interview, part lecture. DVD included with Jodorowsky's book Los Evangelios para Sanar.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office
Overview: John C. Lilly is the inventor of the isolation tank, as well as pioneer of studies in dolphin intelligence and support of psychedelics as a positive means for expanding consciousness. The storytelling will be supported by interviews with Lilly’s contemporaries and colleagues, as well as extensive archival records.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-01-31
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Atar
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Original Language: es
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