“When I was a young person I went to the university and I learned a rational language, to think with the left side of the brain. But in the right side of the brain you have intuition and imagination. Words are not the truth; they indicate the way to go, but you need to go alone, in silence. Symbols have a language that kills the words.”

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.