Who Is Alejandro Jodorowsky

This educational video essay compiles clips and interviews to detail the life and career of Chilean filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky, and how his unique cinematic style continues to influence our cultural lexicon. *hey guys sorry about the mix being off in the intro, people have been letting me know the music is too loud. Future videos will be mixed better! Here is a transcript of what is said:* “Alejandro Jodorowsky is a radically bold and outrageous filmmaker, whose work is incredibly spiritual, and on the surface it can seem esoteric. But in reality, his unique filmic style is informed by a lifelong study in Tarot, Eastern mysticism and Jungian philosophy. His visual approach combines vibrant, religious iconography with grotesque and often sexually violent imagery. His cinematography is both meticulous and surreal, and loaded with intense symbolic gravity - where objects and movements are turned into metaphors, emphasizing their concepts and ideas - OVER the literal