Description
Synopsis:
While each of us has a genetic heritage, we also have a psychological heritage that is passed on from generation to generation. Alejandro Jodorowsky, filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist convinced that art only has a deep meaning if it heals and frees consciousness, created Psychomagic. By means of dramatic and poetic acts directly addressed to the unconscious, this therapy helps to release blockages. Psychomagic, a Healing Art is the most comprehensive artistic experience on the evolution of the creative and therapeutic work of Alejandro Jodorowsky.
About the director:
Alejandro Jodorowsky was born in 1929 in Tocopilla, Chile. In 1942, he moved to Santiago, where he attended university and worked as a circus clown and a puppeteer. In 1955, he moved to Paris and studied mime with Marcel Marceau. In the late 1960s, he made his first ‘real’ film, the surrealist love story Fando and Lis.
In 1970, El Topo was released and became a cult classic, as did The Holy Mountain (1973). In 1989, he returned to film with Santa Sangre, which was critically acclaimed and widely distributed. Throughout the 1990s he continued to produce cartoons with a variety of graphic artists. After a 23-year break, Jodorowsky shot his seventh full-length film, The Dance of Reality (La danza de la realidad), which premiered at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. His next film, Endless Poetry (2016), was also shown in Cannes.
His life shows him to be an accomplished and versatile artist in a variety of disciplines: film director, but also actor, dramaturge, poet and essayist, as well as author of comic strips and mime. Fascinated with esotericism, he practices ‘Psychomagic’ and reads the tarot, and uses these skills in his art.
Filmography: The Severed Heads (1957), Fando and Lis (1968), El Тopo (1970), The Holy Mountain (1973), Tusk (1980), Santa sangre (1989), The Rainbow Thief (1990), La danza de la realidad (2013), Endless Poetry (2016).