MAD Museum (Museum of Art and Design) in New York chose the Autumn Equinox to open its full retrospective of film maker Alejandro Jodorowsky's work.
The first movie to be shown in this Blood into Gold: The Cinematic Alchemy of Alejandro Jodorowsky event will be El Topo on September 23 at 7 PM and the series conclude with Rainbow Thief on October 8, 2010.
Here's a bit of background on the man via one of his online profiles:
"Alejandro Jodorowsky (born February 7, 1929, in Tocopilla, Chile) is an actor, playwright, director, producer, composer, mime, comic book writer and psychotherapist. He is particularly known for having directed a handful of esoteric, surreal and shocking films such as El Topo. He once stated, "I ask of cinema what most North Americans ask of psychedelic drugs."
I remember Jodorowsky as one of these figures often mentioned in the 70's incarnation of Actuel, the French magazine always plugged into the happening things and people of the moment.
My memory was refreshed reading Alexandro Jodorowsky @ 70, they meant 80 (February 2009. Jahsonic) which shares the following details.
The director was a member of "the Panic Movement (Fr:Mouvement panique) was a collective formed in Paris in 1962 by Fernando Arrabal, Alejandro Jodorowsky and Roland Topor after casual meetings at the Parisian Café de la Paix. Inspired by and named after the god Pan, and influenced by Luis Buñuel and Antonin Artaud‘s Theatre of Cruelty, the group concentrated on chaotic performance art and surreal imagery."
Now famous theater director, Jerome Savary, was part of Panic Movement . Roland Topor is pretty well known as well.
Alejandro Jodorowsky will be the toast of the town with a private party in his honor hosted by Debbie Harry and Ana Matronic (Scissor Sisters)…
Will I blend in with this hip NY crowd, after all I'm only the French Guy from New Jersey?