# Alejandro Jodorowsky

> A Chilean surrealist who made films so violent and mystical they couldn't get proper distribution, then became a cult deity anyway. John Lennon loved El Topo enough to fund his next one.

*Chilean-French filmmaker and comics writer*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Movie Director ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999))
- **Category:** Directors
- **Country:** France
- **Born:** 1929-02-17
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Born 17 February 1929, Jodorowsky dropped out of college and worked as a clown before founding Teatro Mímico in 1947. He moved to Paris in the early 1950s to study mime under Étienne Decroux, appearing in the silent film Les têtes interverties in 1957. From 1960 he split time between Mexico City and Paris, co-founding Panic Movement, a surrealist collective staging violent theatrical events. His first feature, Fando y Lis (1967), caused such scandal in Mexico it was banned. The acid western El Topo (1970) became the first midnight cult film and caught Lennon's ear; former Beatles manager Allen Klein gave Jodorowsky $1 million for The Holy Mountain (1973), a surrealist dive into western esotericism. Disagreements with Klein buried both films' distribution, though the underground claimed them. A failed attempt at Dune led to five more films, including Santa Sangre (1989) and two autobiographical entries beginning with The Dance of Reality (2013). He also wrote science fiction comics throughout the 1980s - The Incal, The Technopriests, Metabarons - and developed "psychomagic," his own spiritual system drawn from alchemy, tarot, Zen, and shamanism.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 62.4 / 100
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- **Historical depth:** 28.1 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 11.3 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 75.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 85.0 / 100
- **Country rank:** #206
- **Category rank:** #136

## Platforms
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- **FACEBOOK**: https://www.facebook.com/alejandrojodorowsky (@alejandrojodorowsky)

## Topics
#Writers, #Writer / Author, #Literature, #Television, #Theatre, #Screenwriting, #Philosophy, #Poetry

## Timeline
- **2016** - Leopard of Honour
- **2015** - Officer of Arts and Letters
- **2013** - Adamson Awards
- **2006** - Time Machine Award
- **2006** - Pablo Neruda Order of Artistic and Cultural Merit
- **1998** - Yellow Kid Award
- **1957** - The Severed Heads
- **1929** - Born

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