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Alejandro Jodorowsky



Alejandro Jodorowsky Prullansky is a Chilean filmmaker and artist based in France. Best known for his avant garde films, Jodorowsky combines humor, violence, surreal imagery, mysticism, mime, and religious provocation to awaken his viewers to transcendence of their worlds and make self-discoveries.

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Kanye West Meets Alejandro Jodorowsky

Alejandro Jodorowsky talks about meeting Kanye West Yeezy, giving him a tarot reading. Spike Jonze, Marilyn Manson.

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Alejandro Jodorowsky
2015
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Jodorowsky's Dune (2014) - HD Trailer

In 1973, film producer Arthur P. Jacobs optioned the film rights to Dune but died before a film could be developed.

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Alejandro Jodorowsky
2014
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The Son of Black Thursday

In Where the Bird Sings Best, Alejandro Jodorowsky’s visionary autobiographical novel that NPR compared to One Hundred Years of Solitude and called “a genius’s surreal vision brought to life,” we followed Jodorowsky’s predecessors as they fled to Chile amid a fantastical array of...

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Alejandro Jodorowsky
2018
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Alejandro Jodorowsky Interview

Cult director Alejandro Jodorowsky speaks to Collective

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Alejandro Jodorowsky
2007
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The Finger and the Moon: Zen Teachings and Koans

Jodo’s interpretations of the stories and koans of Zen master Ejo Takata • Offers more than 60 Zen teaching tales, initiatory stories, koans, and haikus for self-realization and spiritual awakening • Each story or koan is accompanied by the author’s lucid and penetrating commentary,...

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Alejandro Jodorowsky
2016
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Alejandro Jodorowsky: Never Belonging

"A dizzying wealth of details of a peripatetic life in art." Daniel Spicer reports back from the first major museum retrospective of Chilean artist, writer, director and counter cultural magus Alejandro Jodorowsky

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Daniel Spicer
2015
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The Dance of Reality: A Psychomagical Autobiography

Retracing the spiritual and mystical path he has followed since childhood, Alejandro Jodorowsky re-creates the incredible adventure of his life as an artist, filmmaker, writer, and therapist—all stages on his quest to push back the boundaries of both imagination and reason.

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Alejandro Jodorowsky
2014
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Alejandro Jodorowsky on How the Pandemic Can Save Cinema

Rejecting the premises of common techniques like psychoanalysis and talk therapy, Jodorowsky compels his subjects to engage in performative exercises, which he calls “actions,” that defy description and are meant to exorcise familial demons. - Ryan Lattanzio

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Ryan Lattanzio
2020
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Buy High, Sell Cheap: An Interview with Alejandro Jodorowsky

For more than half a century, Alejandro Jodorowsky has been revered as a master of the surreal—a puppeteer of grotesque fantasy and psychedelic excess.

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Elianna Kan
2018
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