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Blood into Gold: the Cinematic Alchemy of Alejandro Jodorowsky
The cult cinema of the 81-year-old, Chilean-born filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky (who will attend in person!) emerges from the underground at the Museum of Arts and Design this fall in its latest film series, running from September 23 - specially timed for the fall equinox - through October 8, 2010. Influenced by his work as a pantomime, theater director, philosopher, playwright, comic book artist, as well as his spiritual training in Zen Buddhism, shamanism, and the occult, Jodorowsky's films eschew traditional narratives, arcs and character tropes.
The six films showcased in "Blood into Gold: the Cinematic Alchemy of Alejandro Jodorowsky" depict dream worlds, brimming with symbols and steeped in mysticism, floating and colliding with the Surrealist concepts of anarchy and randomness - filtered through the hazy, acid-colored lens of psychedelia.
Highlights include his classics El Topo (Sept. 24) and Holy Mountain (Sept. 25), as well as his very first film La Cravate, based on a Thomas Mann novella.
On Saturday afternoon, September 25, Jodorowsky will lead an intimate master class in the museum. This seminar-style program will provide insight into Jodorowsky's thinking on the power of film and art, with attention given to art-making as a means to personal and spiritual enlightenment.
Movie tickets are: $10 general admission, $7 for MAD museum members and students with valid ID.
The MAD Theater is located on the below street level of MAD at 2 Columbus Circle at 59th Street.
For more information about the series, go to http://gold.madmuseum.org/
