Alejandro Jodorowsky

About

Alejandro Jodorowsky, born to Jewish Ukrainian immigrants in Tocopilla, Chile, developed an early interest in theater, mime, puppetry, and poetry. After briefly studying at the University of Chile, he founded the Teatro Mimico in 1947 and worked as a clown in a circus. In 1953, he moved to Paris, studying mime with Marcel Marceau and Étienne Decroux, and directed his first short film La Cravate in 1957. He co-founded the Panic Movement in 1962 with Fernando Arrabal and Roland Topor, pushing surrealism into absurdism through shocking performances like Mélodrame sacrementel in 1965.[1][2][3][4]

Surrealism, avant-garde, esoteric, absurdism