Brontis Jodorowsky

Alejandro Jodorowsky's childhood in Chile. “Having broken away from my illusory self, I was desperately seeking a path and a meaning to life.” This phrase perfectly sums up Alejandro Jodorowsky’s biographical project: reconstituting the incredible adventure of his life. Alejandro Jodorowsky was born in 1929 in Tocopilla, a coastal town on edge of the Chilean desert, where this film was shot. It was there where he discovered the fundamentals of reality, as he underwent an unhappy and alienated childhood as part of an uprooted family.

The earth has stopped spinning and days have stopped passing by. One toxic dense fog cover the forest immersed in eternal twilight. Argel has spent his life locked inside an old cabin basement with his brothers. Once his older brother mysteriously disappears, Argel undertakes a quest which will guide him to discover the darkest mysteries that both his father and the forest hide.

Regina, quien vive con su hijo Daniel, pierde su empleo de maestra debido a la ilegitimidad de éste pero monta un taller de costura, y mantiene a su hijo alejado de la gente. Cinta en la que se narra la dramática relación entre una mamá, su hijo ilegítimo y la organización puritana que los rodea.

Jodorowsky, aged twenty, decides to become a poet against the will of his family. He is introduced in the inner circle of the artistic and intellectual avant-garde of the time. Totally immersed in this world of poetic experimentation, they live together as few have dared to live before.

En Real de Catorce, donde murió su padre, un compositor busca inspiración para su obra maestra, pero lo distrae el caso de una mujer desaparecida.

The tale of Jodorowsky’s doomed film adaptation of the sci-fi novel is a fascinating trip through the pursuit of a dream and the necessity of art.