Alejandro Jodorowsky Biography
Alejandro Jodorowsky (1929 - ), pioneer of the Chilean, Mexican and then European theatrical avant-garde since the end of the 1940s, was the founder and animator, with Fernando Arrabal and Roland Topor, of one of the artistic, literary and theatrical phenomena most interesting of the sixties: the Panic. Since then, the artist of Russian origin has always continued to explore the possibilities of artistic expression according to that concept of "total art" ("panic" precisely) that distinguishes him. Among theatrical productions, “The Game We All Play” is still among the most performed shows in Latin America today. But for several years Jodorowsky's novels and poetic collections have also been successful (Theresa Got Angry with God, What You Cannot Talk About, The Angels' Ladder), while the feature films that the artist directed in the 1960s and the Seventies (El topo, The sacred mountain, In the enchanted country, Santa Sangre) have become cult films, leaving frequent and recognizable traces in subsequent cinema, up to the present day. Jodorowsky was also the author of comics: from the well-known collaboration with Moebius for the Incal saga, to the screenplays and subjects which today are exported from France to all continents. On the therapeutic (and in some ways also theatrical) side, the experience of cabaret mystique is now well known, which Jodorowsky has been conducting for years in Paris reading tarot cards in public for free; his psychomagic is known, an art of healing that combines art with therapeutic intent.
