Alejandro Jodorowsky | |
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Born |
Alejandro Jodorowsky Prullansky 17 February 1929 , Chile |
Residence | Paris, France |
Other names | Alexandro, "Jodo" |
Citizenship | Chilean French |
Occupation | Film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, author, comics writer, and musician |
Years active | 1948–present |
Spouse(s) | Pascale Montandon |
Website | Alejandro Jodorowsky on Facebook |
Alejandro Jodorowsky Prullansky (Spanish: [aleˈxandɾo xoðoˈɾofski]; born 17 February 1929) is a Chilean-French filmmaker. Active since 1948, in seventy years of his artistic career Jodorowsky has experienced it in almost all creative forms: writer (in his five facets: novelist, storyteller, poet, playwright and essayist), film director and producer, actor of cinema and theatre, playwright, theatre director, screenwriter, film editor, comics writer, musician, soundtrack composer, philosopher, puppeteer, mime, psychologist and psychoanalyst (Psycho-magician) draughtsman, painter, eventually sculptor and spiritual guru. Best known for his avant-garde films, he has been "venerated by cult cinema enthusiasts" for his work which "is filled with violently surreal images and a hybrid blend of mysticism and religious provocation".