Kirill Serebrennikov

All of Jodorowsky's work is a mystery and an enigma. Actor, director, producer, composer, playwright, writer, comic book author, psychotherapist, spiritualist and one of the world specialists of divinatory tarot. His filmography is quite short with only ten films. But then again, Jodorowsky’s films, Dune included, though he didn’t shoot it, have had a great influence on a whole generation of filmmakers. Alejandro Jodorowsky’s cinematographic language shows the highest degree of an author’s presence in cinema.

Jodorowsky’s style is like no other, his films are made of visions and dreams and of a totally incomprehensible substance. I’d compare his cinema to ayahuasca, if you know what I mean.

Jodorowski generously gives us his dreams and they become our dreams.

It often happens this way: you watch a film and understand everything is good - the camera work, the sets, the acting, the music, the editing, but... everything in the film is clear, predictable and totally incapable of “pulling your chair from under you”.

Jodorowski’s cinema not only “ pulls the chair from under you” but makes you totally doubt your capacity to remain in a seated position. The movie is like a trip, the movie is like a miracle. Such miracles probably can't be made repeatedly, and maybe that’s the reason Alejandro Jodorowsky doesn’t have a large filmography. But even these few films have been explosive, and their shockwaves still reach and affect us, and our conscience.