Alejandro Jodorowsky

Alejandro Jodorowsky

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.

Known For: Directing

Born: Tocopilla, Chile, 1929-02-17

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1957	The Severed Heads		61
2	1965	He! Viva Dada	Self	0
3	1969	Anticlimax		53
4	1970	Fando and Lis	Puppeteer (uncredited)	68
5	1970	El Topo	El Topo	71
6	1973	The Holy Mountain	The Alchemist	75
7	1994	The Jodorowsky Constellation	Self	62
8	1997	Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths	Self	0
9	1997	Jodorowsky's Phylosophycal Tales	Alejandro	0
10	2002	Blink Jodorowsky	Himself	0
11	2002	Cherif	Prophet	0
12	2003	No Big Deal	Pablo	46
13	2006	Musikanten	Ludwig van Beethoven	67
14	2006	Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream	Self	63
15		The Eternal Voice	Old Alejandro	0
16	1965	Melodrama Sacramental	Himself	59
17	2002	Psicotaxi	Himself	43
18	2003	Alejandro Jodorowsky: Interview at ICA London December 2002		0
19	2007	Arrabal, Panik Cineast	Self	0
20	2007	Una hora con Alejandro Jodorowsky	Self	0
21	2007	A Conversation with Alejandro Jodorowsky		0
22	2007	Moebius Redux: A Life in Pictures	Self	66
23	2007	In Search of Moebius	Himself	100
24	2007	Niente è come sembra		58
25	2008	Born Without		0
26	2008	La colorina	Self	0
27	2011	Forget Everything You Have Ever Seen: The World of Santa Sangre	Himself	70
28	2011	The Island	Jodo	50
29	2012	NWR	Self	73
30	2013	Ritual - A Psychomagic Story	Fernando	49
31	2013	The Dance of Reality	Old Alejandro	72
32	2013	Jodorowsky's Dune	Self	78
33	2014	Alejandro Jodorowsky's Social Psychomagic	Himself	0
34	2015	My Life Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn	Self	64
35	2016	Endless Poetry	Old Alejandro	75
36	2016	Alejandro Jodorowsky and the Seagulls	Himself	0
37	2017	Violeta más viva que nunca	Himself (archive footage)	0
38	2021	Fake News	Mysterious man	40
39	2022	Tripping The Dark Fantastic	Himself	0
40		The Family Forest	Himself	0
41		Alejandro Jodorowsky - Conversations on the Way of the Tarot	himself	0
42	2019	Psychomagic: A Healing Art	Himself	61
43	2023	What the Forest conceals	self	0
44	2024	Helicopter	Himself	5
45	2025	John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office	Self	70
46		Atar		0
47	2025	The Dark Fantastic	Self	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1968	The Dick Cavett Show	Self - Guest	67
2	1996	De pé a pá	Self	65
3	2005	Le Cercle	Self	0
4	2006	Una belleza nueva	Self	20
5	2022	Léemelo	Self	0

Alejandro Jodorowsky

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