As a coda to the exhibition of his work at MoMA PS1 earlier this year, Alejandro Jodorowsky (b. 1929, Chile) introduces his visionary 1973 cult
film The Holy Mountain.
Occasionally, characters wear the iconic wide - brim, super-tall hat made famous in Alejandro Jodorowsky's druggy, cosmic 1973 cult
film The Holy Mountain, which, like Dirty Computer, deals with personal freedom and sexual liberation.
Not exact matches
First released as an underground
film, it was thanks to John Lennon that the
film was acquired by Allen Klein of ABKCO, who bought the rights to «El Topo» and then financed Alejandro Jodorowsky's next
film «The
Holy Mountain.»
taking inspiration from the work of Alejandro Jodorowsky, most notably his
film, «The
Holy Mountain».
Here, Jodorowsky's magical realist, fable - like cinematic language finally enters the real world; if cult
films like «El Topo,» «The
Holy Mountain,» and «Santa Sangre» interwove elaborately absurdist imagery with narratives borrowed from genre and myth, «The Dance of Reality» feels like Jodorowsky returning to the scene of the crime — to the the childhood visions and heartbreaks that started it all.
Alejandro Jodorowsky's daring and psychedelic
films of the early 1970's, EL TOPO and THE
HOLY MOUNTAIN, cemented his status as the Godfather of the Midnight Movie.