Alejandro Jodorowsky

Biography

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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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Known For

The Dick Cavett Show

Self - Guest

Una belleza nueva

Self

De pé a pá

Self

Le Cercle

Self

Léemelo

Self

The Holy Mountain

The Alchemist

Endless Poetry

Old Alejandro

El Topo

Filmography

Year	Movie	Role
2025	John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office	Self
2024	Helicopter	Himself
2023	What the Forest conceals	self
2022	Tripping The Dark Fantastic	Himself
2021	Fake News	Mysterious man
2019	Psychomagic: A Healing Art	Himself
2017	Violeta más viva que nunca	Himself (archive footage)
2016	Endless Poetry	Old Alejandro
2016	Alejandro Jodorowsky and the Seagulls	Himself
2015	My Life Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn	Self
2014	Alejandro Jodorowsky's Social Psychomagic	Himself
2013	The Dance of Reality	Old Alejandro
2013	Jodorowsky's Dune	Self
2013	Ritual - A Psychomagic Story	Fernando
2012	NWR	Self
2011	The Island	Jodo
2011	Forget Everything You Have Ever Seen: The World of Santa Sangre	Himself
2008	La colorina	Self
2008	Born Without
2007	In Search of Moebius	Himself
2007	Arrabal, Panik Cineast	Self
2007	Moebius Redux: A Life in Pictures	Self
2007	A Conversation with Alejandro Jodorowsky
2007	Niente è come sembra
2007	Una hora con Alejandro Jodorowsky	Self
2006	Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream	Himself
2006	Musikanten	Ludwig van Beethoven
2003	No Big Deal	Pablo
2003	Alejandro Jodorowsky: Interview at ICA London December 2002
2002	Psicotaxi	Himself
2002	Cherif	Prophet
2002	Blink Jodorowsky	Himself
1997	Jodorowsky's Phylosophycal Tales	Alejandro
1997	Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths	Self
1994	The Jodorowsky Constellation	Self
1973	The Holy Mountain	The Alchemist
1970	El Topo	El Topo
1970	Fando and Lis	Puppeteer (uncredited)
1969	Anticlimax
1965	Melodrama Sacramental	Himself
1965	He! Viva Dada	Self
1957	The Severed Heads
	The Eternal Voice	Old Alejandro
	The Family Forest	Himself
	Alejandro Jodorowsky - Conversations on the Way of the Tarot	himself
	Atar

Year	TV Show	Role
2022	Léemelo	Self
2006	Una belleza nueva	Self
2005	Le Cercle	Self
1996	De pé a pá	Self
1968	The Dick Cavett Show	Self - Guest