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