Alejandro jodorowsky interview at ica london december 2002 part ii by donna. Long held up in a dispute between jodorowsky and producer allen klein of abkco films, fans have had to make do with inferior bootleg copies for decades. Interview at ica london december 2002 video 2002 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. An interview with alejandro jodorowsky, a filmmaker, poet, novelist, comics writer, mime, actor, soundtrack composer, psychomagician, and tarot reader. A dizzying wealth of details of a peripatetic life in art. At first glance, it doesnt have the look or feel of a horror film, but thats what makes it stand out.
Alejandro jodorowsky was born in iquique, chile on february 17, 1929. The following footage was recorded at the ica, london in december 2002 and features jodorowsky onstage after a screening of santa. The incal by alejandro jodorowsky, illustrated by moebius. F rom its opening panels, in which shambling detective john difool is thrown through the strata of. Alejandro jodorowsky is a legendary chilean filmmaker born in 1929 to ukranian immigrants.
Alejandro jodorowsky s preach money and desire duration. Stream gratuit the footage is recorder in ica, london, in december 2002 and features jodorowsky onstage after the screening of santa sangre. In his autobiography the spiritual journey of alejandro jodorowsky. Alejandro jodorowsky also known as alexandro jodorowsky is a chilean film and theatre director, screenwriter, playwright, actor, comic book writer, author, poet, mime, musician, and spiritual guru. Alejandro jodorowsky prullansky is a chileanfrench filmmaker and artist. Alejandro jodorowsky a brief meeting with the magus of cinema by mark pilkington for fortean times. With the violence and bloodletting comes comedy or farce. Alejandro jodorowskys dance on the edge of meaning. An interview with alejandro jodorowsky by margaret bartonfumo on january 9, 2012 its been 22 years since alejandro jodorowsky directed his.
Interview at ica london december 2002 film alejandro jodorowsky. Alejandro jodorowsky on his latecareer comeback the. Join facebook to connect with alejandro jodorowsky and others you may know. Alejandro jodorowsky interview at ica london december 2002 part i duration. You know, after we finish this interview, two minutes later, this interview will be as far away as the prehistoric epoch. After a screening of his film santa sangre in london, 2002 chilean director alejandro jodorowsky reflects on the impact of then contemporay cinema e. He has drawn comic strips, and worked in the circus, and was the assistant of marcel marceau, the great mime, and the partner of arrabal, the spanish surrealist. Ballard, fantasy and science fiction are the genres that, out of the whole production of the most part of the xx. Interview at ica london december 2002 video 2002 on imdb. Jodos thenforthcoming book on the tarot has since been published, and is now available in english as the way of tarot. You havent made a film in a couple of decades alejandro jodorowsky.
Seen many years later, this was jodorowsky finding his feet in the cinematic world. In a chilean little town, the son of an uprooted couple, formed by a rigorous communist father and a loving but weak mother, tries to pave his own path in a society that does not understand their jewishukrainian origins. See more ideas about alejandro jodorowsky, the holy mountain and film. An assembly of footage of a shocking happening performed by the panic movement. He wrote, directed, scored and starred in the movie, which is equal parts sergio leonestyle western, grisly biblical rewrite and federico felliniesque freak show. Such core absurdity is central in all of your films.
Interview with alejandro jodorowsky roger ebert may 22, 1988. Since 1948, jodorowsky has worked as a novelist, screenwriter, a poet, a playwright, an essayist, a film and theater director and producer, an actor, a film editor, a comics writer, a musician and composer, a philosopher, a puppeteer, a mime, a psychologist and. At times amateurish, this film did sow the seeds for many thematic tropes and themes that jodorowsky would explore in his later works. Cannes, france over in the farthest corner of the bar of the martinez hotel, we huddled together like conspirators, alejandro jodorowsky and myself, while he told me about the four women he had killed. What follows is a short interview, conducted by email. For this event, jodorowsky is joined by klaus biesenbach, director of moma ps1 and. A legless gunslinger crosses the desert atop an armless mans shoulders. Learn more about jodorowskys life and career, including his other notable films. Interview at ica london december 2002 01 january 2003. I was immediately blown away by the sweeping breadth of these two masterpieces and the chilean directors staggering use of imagery, color. Daniel spicer reports back from the first major museum retrospective of chilean artist, writer, director and counter cultural magus alejandro jodorowsky bordeauxs museum of contemporary art is situated in a former 19th century colonial. He is 60 years old and has white hair and a thick accent and has lived everywhere and done anything.
Chilean director alejandro jodorowsky is all of these, perhaps. This is a reference to the god pan the panic movement is a sexual act in its totality. Alejandro jodorowsky interview at ica london december 2002. Alejandro jodorowsky on contemporary cinema youtube. The following footage was recorded at the ica, london in december 2002 and features jodorowsky onstage after a screening of santa sangre. Interview with alejandro jodorowsky interviews roger ebert. Alejandro jodorowsky interview at ica london december 2002 part i youtube. Heres how we can take jodorowskys keys to being a morally sound human being and apply them to making film. In 1962, he became one of the founders of the panic movement in paris. Marcel marceau panic movement mouvement panique was a collective formed by fernando arrabal, alejandro jodorowsky and roland topor in paris, france in 1962. The following footage is recorder in ica, london, in december 2002 and features jodorowsky onstage after the screening of santa sangre ica alejandro jodorowsky interview at ica london december 2002.
Alejandro jodorowsky books list of books by author. Alejandro jodorowsky returns to his life story in endless. Alejandro jodorowsky has made three cult films, writes esoteric scifi and claims he will live to 150. Alejandro jodorowsky interviewed by mark pilkington. Alejandro jodorowsky interview at ica london december2002 part iii by donna. Santa sangre 1989 is yet another jodorowsky masterpiece. In a 2002 interview with the danish comic book magazine strip. View the profiles of people named alejandro jodorowsky. The spiritual teacher in the cards destinyinner traditions. A casual visitor to the place would be forgiven for not. For more than half a century, alejandro jodorowsky has been revered as a master of the surreala puppeteer of grotesque fantasy and psychedelic excess. Jodorowsky talks about mainly about his psychotherapeutical method psicomagia. Interview with alexandro jodorowsky 1989 interviews.
Alejandro jodorowsky magazine content related to alejandro jodorowsky. It was the artist doug aitken who first introduced me to alejandro jodorowsky. Open library is an initiative of the internet archive, a 501c3 nonprofit, building a digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. I discovered a kind of buddhism in mexico, with a japanese zen monk, the most important. Moma ps1 presents an evening with alejandro jodorowsky, including a conversation and a public tarot reading. Alejandro jodorowsky is a chileanfrench filmmaker, playwright, actor, author, musician, comics writer and spiritual guru. Jodorowsky, however, remains spirited and goodhumored, and delightfully unwilling to tolerate windiness. You can find the list of alejandro jodorowsky tour dates here. One of cult cinemas holy grails is finally unleashed with this boxed set, the films of alejandro jodorowsky. Jodorowskys dune is a documentary about very important men making very important art, and as such, it has very little to do with frank herberts novel at all. Alejandro jodorowskys new autobiographical film, the dance of reality, is set in his childhood hometown of tocopilla, in northern chile. Jodorowskys dune didnt get made for a reason and we. The encounter took place in mexico city, directly following a.