The Works of Alejandro Jodorowsky
Saturday, March 4, 2017
Surrealist Deconstruction in The Holy Mountain
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Alejandro Jodorowsky stars as The Alchemist in The Holy Mountain. In the late 1920s, the surrealist film movement was slowly beginning...
Thursday, February 9, 2017
The Spiritual Symbolism of El Topo: Part Two
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Continued from Part One: While the first act of Alejandro Jodorowsky's spiritual genre-bender El Topo can be considered a pseudo...
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Friday, January 27, 2017
The Spiritual Symbolism of El Topo: Part One
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Alejandro Jodorowsky began his career with an already well-defined style, utilizing extensive surrealism and a bizarre setting in his deb...
Monday, January 16, 2017
Ghosts of the Past: La Cravate, Fando Y Lis, Son Of A Gun
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One of the trademark signs of surrealistic filmmaking is the use of ghosts, apparitions, or otherworldly figures as a means of allegorical...
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