Alejandro Jodorowsky

The Alchemist, a guru, guides a troupe of pilgrims on a quest to ascend the Holy Mountain in search of spiritual enlightenment.

The tale of Jodorowsky’s doomed film adaptation of the sci-fi novel is a fascinating trip through the pursuit of a dream and the necessity of art.

El Topo decides to confront warrior Masters on a transformative desert journey he begins with his 6 year old son, who must bury his childhood totems to become a man.

Alejandro Jodorowsky's childhood in Chile. “Having broken away from my illusory self, I was desperately seeking a path and a meaning to life.” This phrase perfectly sums up Alejandro Jodorowsky’s biographical project: reconstituting the incredible adventure of his life. Alejandro Jodorowsky was born in 1929 in Tocopilla, a coastal town on edge of the Chilean desert, where this film was shot. It was there where he discovered the fundamentals of reality, as he underwent an unhappy and alienated childhood as part of an uprooted family.

Jodorowsky, aged twenty, decides to become a poet against the will of his family. He is introduced in the inner circle of the artistic and intellectual avant-garde of the time. Totally immersed in this world of poetic experimentation, they live together as few have dared to live before.