Alejandro Jorodowsky

>>9238055
Jodoroowsky is very much a mystic. He non-ironically performed a Tarot reading for Kanye West once.

I don't know how relevant his writing is to Freud. Most people appreciate Jodorowsky for his films, which I think are absolutely amazing. Check out Holy Mountain and El Topo ("the Mole"). Both are really crazy films.

dune....
/cries

>>9238083
here's a trailer for Holy Mountain

https://youtu.be/bdXGhsAynGI

forgive the pretentious narration. There isn't anything like that in the film. But it isn't exactly an easy film to make a trailer for.

>>9238083
I love the Holy Mountain. The Aztec lizards vs conquistador toads scene is easily one of the greatest in cinematic history.

>>9238118
I swear I had "pretentious" filtered.

>>9238155
>filtering "pretentious"
>on /lit/
You don't read much posts in here, don't you?

>>9238155
well, I think it's an apt way to describe the narration over that film trailer

>"Nothing in your education or experience can prepare you for this film"

>"holy mountain is a film completely outside the tradition of motion picture art"

>"the holy mountain is a film outside the tradition of criticism and review"

This is all BS. Holy Mountain is surely well situated within traditions like magical realism, freudianism, surrealism and post-colonialism.

So when I say, disregard the pretentious narration, it's because the narration is pretentious. It's making outrageous claims about the film for the sake of sensationalising the trailer and building hype.

It's still a really amazing film. Go watch it.

>>9238146
I do really like that scene, but for me the best part is the segment with the Chief of Police and his chamber of testicles. And then the very surreal protest/police crackdown scene that follows. Watching birds fly out of people's chests and people crushing fruit against their chests in a symbolic representation of police violence is probably the most beautiful piece of cinema I've ever seen.

>>9238373
In the 70s, it was very much a groundbreaking film, or at least more groundbreaking than it would be today

>>9238055
este hombre, en mi pais.
El no es nada

>>9238083
Start with Santa Sangre

>>9238055
Like the the other anon said you are better of just sticking with his films
The guy seems to be actually somewhat wellread but he is either retarded or crazy but he is really creative, even if he comes up with the most absurd shit
If you are a film pleb maybe start with Dreams from Kurosawa before jumping into stuff like Jodo

>>9238383
I think to most movie-going audiences it would be a pretty shocking film. But it generally only received screenings in art-house cinemas.anyway.

And I do not believe this trailer was made concurrently with the film, I'm guessing it was made in the 80s or 90s when the film was re-released.

As far as Holy Mountain's place in film history goes, it's clearly heavily influenced by film epics like Heston's "10 Commandments" and Elizabeth Taylor's "Cleopatra", especially when it comes to the grand scale of set design and cinematography. And it's bewildering use of imagery without coherent explanation is obviously a surrealist tactic, the kind of thing you see in Bunuel, Dali, Duchamp/Man Ray films

So the whole idea that Holy Mountain is a groundbreaking split with film history is just silly. But none of this is to argue that it isn't an amazing film, because it is an amazing film.

>>9238083
>He non-ironically performed a Tarot reading for Kanye West once.


even if you do something unironically.. you're still doing it.

>>9238373
the problem with shamans and tricksters.. is.. they can't accept that other people might already have the truths they want to impart. they have to be Bugs Bunny. they can't accept that there are Gremlins.