Alejandro Jodorowsky
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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".
Known for
Credits
NWR (2012)
as Self
The Holy Mountain (1973)
as The Alchemist
The Severed Heads (1957)
Actor
El Topo (1970)
as El Topo
Niente è come sembra (2007)
Actor
Born Without (2008)
Actor
Endless Poetry (2016)
as Old Alejandro
Jodorowsky's Dune (2013)
as Self - Writer / Filmmaker
Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream (2006)
as Self
The Dance of Reality (2013)
as Old Alejandro
Fando and Lis (1972)
as Puppeteer (uncredited)
Blink Jodorowsky (2002)
as Himself
Rush to War (2004)
as Self
Psicotaxi (2002)
as Himself
My Life Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn (2015)
as Self
Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths (1997)
as Self
Arrabal, Panik Cineast (2007)
as Self
A Tar (2010)
Actor
John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office (2025)
as Self
Tripping The Dark Fantastic (2022)
as Himself
Musikanten (2006)
as Ludwig van Beethoven
Helicopter (2024)
as Himself
La colorina (2008)
as Self
He! Viva Dada (1965)
as Self
Fake News (2021)
as Mysterious man
Moebius Redux: A Life in Pictures (2007)
as Self
The Island (2011)
as Jodo
Psychomagic: A Healing Art (2019)
as Himself
Cherif (2002)
as Prophet
The Dark Fantastic (2025)
as Self
Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: Alejandro Jodorowsky (1991)
as Self
Ritual - A Psychomagic Story (2013)
as Fernando
Electric Yakuza, Go to Hell! (2004)
as Self
Violeta más viva que nunca (2017)
as Himself (archive footage)
The Jodorowsky Constellation (1994)
as Self
Melodrama Sacramental (1965)
as Himself
The Family Forest (—)
as Himself
Forget Everything You Have Ever Seen: The World of Santa Sangre (2011)
as Himself
No Big Deal (2003)
as Pablo
Jodorowsky's Phylosophycal Tales (1997)
as Alejandro
Alejandro Jodorowsky - Conversations on the Way of the Tarot (—)
as himself
What the Forest conceals (2023)
as self
Alejandro Jodorowsky's Social Psychomagic (2014)
as Himself
Anticlimax (1969)
Actor
Alejandro Jodorowsky and the Seagulls (2016)
as Himself
Alejandro Jodorowsky: Interview at ICA London December 2002 (2003)
Actor
A Conversation with Alejandro Jodorowsky (2007)
Actor
Una hora con Alejandro Jodorowsky (2007)
as Self