“Surrealism was necessary - essential, even - in the 1920s to bridge the gap between rationalism and the subconscious. It started something important. But by the early '60s, it had become petit-bourgeois; it was too intellectual and romantic, and had ground to a halt. It had become respectable.”

Chilean and French avant-garde filmmaker and writer

Alejandro Jodorowsky Prullansky is a Chilean and French avant-garde filmmaker and writer. His work has made him a fixture among cult cinema enthusiasts, especially through films such as El Topo, The Holy Mountain, and Santa Sangre. He is known for cinema that combines surreal imagery with mysticism and religious provocation. That same unsettling, symbolic style also shapes his writing, which has given him a lasting place in experimental film and literature.