Alejandro Jodorowsky

Alejandro Jodorowsky (b. 1929, Tocopilla, Chile) is a Chilean-French filmmaker, playwright, comic book writer, mime artist, and spiritual teacher whose transgressive, surrealist works have made him one of the most original and controversial figures in twentieth-century cultural life. He studied mime with Marcel Marceau in Paris and founded the Panic Movement with Fernando Arrabal and Roland Topor in 1962.

As a filmmaker, he is best known for the psychedelic westerns El Topo (1970) and The Holy Mountain (1973), both of which achieved cult status through midnight movie screenings in the early 1970s.