ReFocus: The Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky

ReFocus: The Films of Alejandro JodorowskyKnown as the father of the "midnight cult movie" and co founder of the avant garde Panic movement in France, Alejandro Jodorowsky Prullansky defies all basic categorization. He is known as a provocateur, a performance artist, a visionary filmmaker, a controversial playwright, a philosopher, and a tarot reader, among other disparate classifications. These varied dimensions of artist and filmmaker converge seamlessly into his practice. He is recognized

"An exhilaratingly smart and scary freak out about a black man in a white nightmare

Less than a decade old

In narrative terms

Think you know movies

Reconciling History takes this approach to telling our collective story to an entirely different level

“Over the years I have worked with self-proclaimed masters-of-the-universe

He gives special attention to the question of why the film's creative mix of documentary techniques

Boys Don’t Cry ultimately relocates the film in a way that attends to the story’s violence and values

After a teacher recognized his acting promise and pushed him toward New York’s fabled High School of Performing Arts

she moved to study ballet in London

Hipsterism

Rachel Tashjian