Alejandro Jodorowsky

Alejandro Jodorowsky (1929- ) is the Chilean prophet-madman-guru behind the classic psychedelic films, The Holy Mountain, Santa Sangre, and The Dance of Reality, and a prime mover of the Panic Movement, an avant-garde collective that provoked extremist ‘happenings’. A standout in countless media, he is no less accomplished as an author of an impossibly prolific array of novels, comics, spiritual treatises, ‘shamanistic psychotherapeutic’ self-help, essays, and poetry. His writings Where the Bird Sings Best, a fictional autobiography, the collaboration Jodorowsky's & Boucq’s Twisted Tales, and the surrealistic novel Albina and the Dog-Men have been celebrated in translation.