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Alejandro Jodorowsky Tells Us How to Heal the World With a Placebo

Alejandro Jodorowsky sees filmmaking as an art, not a business. He expands on this in the very title of his latest film: Psychomagic, A Healing Art. The film is a personal documentation of Jodorowsky’s theory of trauma therapy, called Psychomagic, in action. We can trust Jodorowsky when he calls action, though beware when he calls cut as his wife, artist Pascale Montandon, who has been his cinematographer on all his films, may keep the cameras rolling. Performance art is an effective placebo to confront psychic suffering and film does it in real time, breaking the wall between reality and performance.…
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Alejandro Jodorowsky 4K Restoration Collection Brings Clarity to Underground Film

Alejandro Jodorowsky’s films are confounding, grotesque, beautiful and healing, often within the same frame. The post-violence images of the opening sequence of El Tropo are made more horrific as they are reflected through the eyes of a seven-year-old boy, still naked from a rite of passage. Jodorowky’s films are a gateway drug. The Alejandro Jodorowsky 4K Restoration Collection of his cult classics Fando y Lis, El Topo, and The Holy Mountain, as well as his new Psychomagic, A Healing Art, are a first taste. The most surrealistic of the psychedelic filmmakers had no special effects, or even fancy cameras in his…
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What Alejandro Jodorowsky Thinks of the New Dune Trailer

“They tried and failed? All of them?” So goes the question Paul Atreides asks the Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam early in Frank Herbert’s Dune. While the powerful Bene Gesserit answers far more harshly than is required for a discussion about the making of movies, Paul’s brief meditation on the failure of those who came before him is still appropriate when thinking about the many attempts to bring the legendary sci-fi novel to the screen. One of those attempts came from Alejandro Jodorowsky, who spent years working on a Dune movie that never came to be, and might just be…
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Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Psychomagic, A Healing Art to Premiere on Alamo On Demand

Chilean master cult filmmaker, and father of the “midnight movie,” Alejandro Jodorowsky’s latest film  Psychomagic, A Healing Art  will premiere in the U.S. and Canada on August 7 through an exclusive arrangement with Alamo Drafthouse‘s new VOD platform, Alamo On Demand. Jodorowsky made two surreal classics in films of the 1970s, the spiritual western epic El Topo (1970), and The Holy Mountain (1973), which was partly funded by John Lennon. The Holy Mountain sparked controversy at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival due to its sacrilegious imagery. It also established Jodorowsky as an auteur of Surrealist Cinema. The documentary-form avant-garde movie…
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