Alejandro Jodorowsky

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Born in 1929 in Chile to Russian-Jewish immigrants, Jodorowsky eventually enrolled at the University of Santiago, where he developed an interest in puppetry and mime. After creating a theater company that employed 60 people, Jodorowsky departed for Paris.Once in Paris he began a lengthy collaboration with Marcel Marceau, collaborating on some of his most famous mimeograms. For the next few years, Jodorowsky would alternate between working in Mexico City and in Paris, developing his interest in the avant-garde and staging the playwrights who would be major influences on his film career, including Samuel Beckett, Ionesco, August Strindberg, and the surrealists. Especially, Theater of Cruelty...read more