“I think the art of filmmaking is something you learn through actions, by doing it, not by learning theories. And as you do it, your mind starts to change.”
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Alejandro Jodorowsky
Alejandro Jodorowsky Prullansky is a Chilean and French avant-garde filmmaker. Known for his films El Topo (1970), The Holy Mountain (1973) and Santa Sangre (1989), Jodorowsky 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".
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culture · Chilean and French filmmaker (born 1929) · writer · film director · playwright · screenwriter · film editor · science fiction writer · philosopher · poet · theatre director · mime artist · also Alejandro Jodorowsky, Alejandro Jodorowsky-Prullansky, Alexandro Jodorowsky, Alejandro Jodorowsky Prullansky, Alexandre Jodorowsky, Jodorowsky
Born 17 February 1929 · Q263730
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2026· 3 entries
FirstShowing.net: Official Trailer for 'Jodorowsky Collection' A 10-Film Blu-Ray Box Set
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Yahoo: The Surreal Life of Alejandro Jodorowsky
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2024· 1 entry
Sportskeeda: What was the idea of Alejandro Jodorowsky's Dune? All we know about the director’s adaptation that never happened
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2020· 2 entries
bleedingcool: Humanoids Release Alejandro Jodorowsky and Mœbius Incal Short
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Yahoo: Alejandro Jodorowsky’s New Film About Trauma Therapy to Debut via Alamo On Demand
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2016· 2 entries
Awarded Leopard of Honour (2016).
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Jodorowsky announced his plans to finally make The Son of El Topo as soon as financial backing is obtained
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2015· 2 entries
Awarded Officer of Arts and Letters (2015).
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Jodorowsky began a new film entitled Endless Poetry, the sequel to his last "auto-biopic", The Dance of Reality
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2014· 1 entry
Hyperallergic: Alejandro Jodorowsky Discusses His First Film in 23 Years
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2013· 1 entry
Awarded Adamson Awards (2013).
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2010· 1 entry
The Museum of Arts and Design in New York City staged the first American cinema retrospective of Alejandro Jodorowsky entitled Blood into Gold: The Cinematic Alchemy of Alejandro Jodorowsky
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2006· 2 entries
Awarded Pablo Neruda Order of Artistic and Cultural Merit (2006).
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Awarded Time Machine Award (2006).
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2005· 1 entry
Jodorowsky officiated at the wedding of Marilyn Manson and Dita Von Teese
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2004· 1 entry
However, plans to re-release Jodorowsky's films were announced by ABKCO Films
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2000· 1 entry
Jodorowsky won the Jack Smith Lifetime Achievement Award from the Chicago Underground Film Festival (CUFF)
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1998· 1 entry
Awarded Yellow Kid Award (1998).
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1990· 1 entry
With a very different film, The Rainbow Thief
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1989· 1 entry
Jodorowsky completed the Mexican-Italian production Santa Sangre (Holy Blood)
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1981· 1 entry
Jodorowsky has co-written and produced a series of linked comics series and graphic novels for the French-language market known colloquially as the Jodoverse
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1980· 1 entry
Premiered his children's fable Tusk, shot in India
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1970· 1 entry
Jodorowsky released the film El Topo, which sometimes is known in English as The Mole, which he had both directed and starred in
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1969· 6 entries
“Lo que busco me persigue.”
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“Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.”
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“Fueron semillas mis errores.”
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“-Maestro, ¿cuándo seré fuerte?-Cuando aprendas a no dañar.”
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“No me agradezcas. Lo que te he dado me ha sido dado sólo para ti.”
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“Oigo lo que dices en lo que no dices.”
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1966· 2 entries
Produced his first comic strip, Anibal 5, which was related to the Panic Movement
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Created his first comic strip, Anibal 5, and in 1967 he directed his first feature film, the surrealist Fando y Lis, which caused a major scandal in Mexico, eventually being banned
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1962· 1 entry
Founded the Panic Movement along with Fernando Arrabal and Roland Topor
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1960· 1 entry
Jodorowsky moved to Mexico, where he settled down in Mexico City
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1957· 1 entry
While Jodorowsky was in Paris studying mime, he created Les têtes interverties (The Severed Heads), a 20-minute adaptation of Thomas Mann's novella
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1950· 1 entry
Studied at University of Chile (1947–1950).
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1947· 1 entry
Founded his own theatrical troupe, the Teatro Mimico, which by 1952 had fifty members, and the following year he wrote his first play, El Minotaura (The Minotaur)
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1929· 2 entries
In Tocopilla, Chile to immigrant Ukrainian Jewish parents Jaime Jodorowsky Groismann and Sara Felicidad Prullansky Arcavi from Yekaterinoslav and Elisavetgrad in the Russian Empire
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Born 1929-02-17.
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