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Alejandro Jodorowsky
Sign in to saveAlso known as Alejandro Jodorowsky-Prullansky, Alexandro Jodorowsky, Alejandro Jodorowsky Prullansky, Alexandre Jodorowsky
Chilean-French filmmaker and comics writer
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Alejandro Jodorowsky, also known by the pseudonym "Jodo," is a Chilean artist whose work period began in 1948. He is an author with 313 recorded works, including *Teatro panico*, *Cuentos pánicos*, *As Armas dos Metabarões*, *Antes do Incal*, and *Métal Hurlant N°16*. His musical output is tagged with descriptors such as Soundtrack, psychedelic, experimental, surreal, and chilean.
The artist has 2,137,104 social media followers and 24,431 listeners on Last.fm, where his music has been played 416,910 times. He is referenced by 481 other encyclopedia articles. Notable quotes attributed to him include, "Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness," "For art to be art it has to cure," and "We only have problems we really want to have."
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 17 February 1929
- Works
- 313
Top works
- Teatro panico
- Cuentos pánicos
- As Armas dos Metabarões
- Antes do Incal
- Métal Hurlant N°16
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 24,431
- Total plays
- 416,910
Tags
Alejandro Jodorowsky (born 17 February 1929) is a Chilean filmmaker, playwright, play director, actor, author, poet, musician, comics writer and spiritual guru. 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". Born to Jewish-Ukrainian parents in Chile, Jodorowsky experienced an unhappy and alienated childhood, and so immersed himself in
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A New Equation to Estimate Glomerular Filtration Rate
· 2009 · cited 22,566x
- Observational Evidence from Supernovae for an Accelerating Universe and a Cosmological Constant
· 1998 · cited 16,266x
- Assessing the quality of reports of randomized clinical trials: Is blinding necessary?
· 1996 · cited 13,977x
- Sorafenib in Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma
· 2008 · cited 11,228x
- Photo-Realistic Single Image Super-Resolution Using a Generative Adversarial Network
· 2017 · cited 8,888x
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Quotes
- “"I think the art of filmmaking is something you learn through actions, by doing it, not by learning theories. And as you do it, your mind starts to change."”
- “At that time they said I was crazy because I wanted to make a movie that was 14 or 16 hours. But now people do it. There are three—"Hobbit 1," "Hobbit 2," "Hobbit 3." Everything I wanted to do is possible to do today.”
- “When we didn't make the picture, Dan O'Bannon needed to be interned in a mental institution for two years, suffering because we didn't get to do "Dune." And when he came out he wrote the script for "Alien." "Alien" was the reaction to not doing "Dune." Who would believe that? But it's true!”
- “Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.”
- “For art to be art it has to cure.”
- “We only have problems we really want to have.”
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Encyclopedic overview
Alejandro Jodorowsky Prullansky ( Spanish: [xoðoˈɾofski]; born 17 February 1929) is a Chilean and French avant-garde filmmaker. Known for his films El Topo (1970), The Holy Mountain (1973) and Santa Sangre (1989), Jodorowsky 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".
Dropping out of college, he became involved in theater and in particular mime, working as a clown before founding his own theater troupe, the Teatro Mímico, in 1947. Moving to Paris in the early 1950s, Jodorowsky studied traditional mime under Étienne Decroux, and put his miming skills to use in the silent film Les têtes interverties (1957), directed with Saul Gilbert and Ruth Michelly. From 1960 onwards he divided his time between Mexico City and Paris, where he co-founded Panic Movement, a surrealist performance art collective that staged violent and shocking theatrical events. In 1966 he created his first comic strip, Anibal 5, and in 1967 he directed his first feature film, the surrealist Fando y Lis, which caused a major scandal in Mexico, eventually being banned.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Alejandro Jodorowsky” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.