Alejandro Jodorowsky

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.

A study of six low-budget 1970s movies that became cult classics illuminates their originality and how they changed both filmmaking and audiences.

A film focusing on all facets of artist Alejandro Jodorowsky’s life, including movie directing, comic-book writing, psycho-magic inventing, and more.

Alejandro Jodorowsky, filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist, created a theory of trauma therapy. His unique concept of healing uses performance art as a vehicle to counter deep, debilitating psychic suffering with literal acts of confrontation in real world applications.

An exclusive making-of documentary featuring interviews with the cast and crew of Alejandro Jodorowsky's SANTA SANGRE.

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.

Portrait of filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn during the filming and release of Only God Forgives.

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.

French artist and author Jean Giraud is one of the most influential comic strip illustrators and authors of all time - and also one of its best kept secret. He achieved his greatest fame as Moebius - not so much a pseudonym as an alter ego. As Moebius, he revolutionized the world of comics. Giraud's artistic influence extends far beyond Europe, all the way to the USA and Japan.