Four Days of Jodorowsky

Day One | Wednesday, 11.05.2011
8 pm: Talk with Alejandro Jodorowksy
9 pm: El Topo (MEX 1970, color, 125 min.)


Day Two | Thursday, 12.05.2011
9 pm: The Holy Mountain – Montana Sacra (MEX/USA 1974, color, 114 min.)


Day Three | Friday, 13.05.2011
9 pm: Santa Sangre (MEX/IT 1989, color, 123 min.)


Day Four | Saturday, 14.05.2011
9 pm: Fando y Lis (MEX 1967, b/w, 96 min.)



A sea of red, yellow, blue and orange paint flows out of the bodies of the dead. Deep red currents pour out of the mouths of those dying, white flour rises from the stomach of a withered young man, a turquoise dove escapes from the bowel of a woman. The brutality of the violent deaths charge through the beauty of being. (The Holy Mountain – Montana Sacra)


The films by Chilean filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky (born 1929) have accomplished a unique world of imagery, allowing the thought process and habits of the viewer to be jarred until this day. The influence Jodorowsky’s films have had on contemporary art is apparent, although still not completely recognized. In his films a fantastic aesthetic collides with a drastic social criticism, the shameless with the holy.


In the film screening program “Four Days of Jodorowsky” KW Institute for Contemporary Art is showing Jodorowsky’s films, El Topo (1970), The Holy Mountain – Montana Sacra (1974), Santa Sangre (1989) and Fando y Lis (1967), one each evening, four evenings in a row.


With kind support of the Friends of KW.


By courtesy of ABKCO Music and Records, Inc.




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D-10117 Berlin


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