Alejandro Jodorowsky
One of the great cult filmmaker, Chilean-born Alejandro Jodorowsky invented the Midnight Movie with 'El Topo' (1970). His drug-addled, psychedelic Western defies any simple categorisation as it charts the journey of a black-clad gunfighter and a young child across a bleak, sparsely populated landscape. Violent, dream-like and eroticised to the hilt, its only points of comparison are the films Jodorowsky made after it. 'The Holy Mountain' (1973) is no less strange or compelling. The filmmaker then spent some years attempting to film Frank Herbert's 'Dune' – the subject of the entertaining 'Jodorowsky's Dune' (2013) – before embarking on 'Tusk' (1980) and, at the end of the decade, arguably his finest film 'Santa Sangre' (1989). In recent years, he has blended his unique vision of the world with his own history in the semi-autobiographical 'The Dance of Reality' (2013) and 'Endless Poetry' (2016).
