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In 1955 he went to paris and studied mime with marcel marceau. Alejandro jodorowsky is a playwright, filmmaker, composer, mime, psychotherapist, and author of many books on spirituality and tarot, and over thirty comic books and graphic novels. A psychomagical autobiography paperback june 6, 2014. Iribas alejandro jodorowsky iquique, chile, 1929, is not easily pigeonholed. Special new edition of this classic score written, performed and recorded by acclaimed actor, director and musician adan jodorowsky. The film exhibited little of the directors fodos visual style and was never given wide release. Aug 19, 2019 the legendary chilean filmmaker, poet, writer, actor, playwright, mime alejandro jodorowsky finished his latest project, psychomagic, an art that heals. The film reflects jodorowskys view that life is a dance created by our imagination. Surrealism in the autobiographical cinema of alejandro. The dance of reality by alejandro jodorowsky a glimpse into the mind and life of one of the most creative and enigmatic visionaries of our time, filmmaker.
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The dance of reality book by alejandro jodorowsky official. Jodorowskys films have always placed a special emphasis on musichis soundtracks rank as among the most daring and fascinating in film historyand for the dance of reality, jodorowsky tapped his own son adan jodorowsky a. In the radiantly visceral autobiographical film, a young jodorowsky is confronted by a collection of compelling characters that contributed to his burgeoning surreal consciousness. The arrival of alejandro jodorowskys new feature would be grounds for excitement even if the movie, the dance of reality, were not something very close to a masterpiece. Alejandro jodorowsky was born in iquique, chile on february 17, 1929. Alejandro jodorowskys most popular book is the incal. Injodorowsky began a new film entitled endless poetrythe sequel to his last autobiopic, the dance of reality. The dance of reality film is a trippy but bighearted reimagining of the young alejandros unhappy childhood in a chilean town. In both the film and the book, jodorowsky turns his surrealist wand away from the allegorical figures of his past work toward the members of his own family, spinning them into characters of. The psychomagical realism of alejandro jodorowsky the new.
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