Alejandro Jodorowsky - presented by Angelo
Alejandro Jodorowsky: philosopher, scholar in comparative religion, playwright, director, producer, composer, actor, mime, comic book writer, tarot card reader and historian, and psychotherapist. Jodorowsky wrote his first play, El Minotauro, in 1953. Throughout the 60s and 70s he directed works of his own as well as those by Leonora Carrington, Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco, and August Strindberg. He was a leader in El Panico, an artistic movement centered around the three elements of terror, humor and simultaneity. In 1966, Jodorowsky created comics relating to El Panico. These comics were made independently and in collaboration with illustrators including Jean "Mœbius" Giraud. In the course of his comic career Jodorowsky has created approximately 21 series including Fabulas Panicos, Los Ojos del Gato and El Incal. All translated in over ten languages. Jodorowsky is recognized as one of the world’s leading researchers in the Tarot, and with his knowledge moved into intense therapeutic work in psychomagic, psycho genealogy and iniciatic massage, based on the belief that the performance of certain acts can directly act upon the unconscious mind, releasing it from a series of traumas. Jodorowsky has produced over 23 novels 9 plays 7 films dozens of comic books, studied with Marcel Marceau, worked on Holy Mountain with John Lennon and Yoko Ono, incited riots with the screening of Fando y Lis, and was the aficionado at the wedding of Marylin Manson and Eita Von Tesse. Now-a-days, he just gives lectures on psycho magic and the Tarot. For this series, we will be showing Santa Sangre, La Montaña Sagrada, El Topo, and Fando y Lis.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Thursday, February 21, 2008
