This is in Spanish and is wonderful if you speak SpanishPosted by Delight (here)
In 1974, cult film director Alejandro Jodorowsky attempted to create a big-screen adaptation of Frank Herbert's seminal science fiction novel "Dune." While the ambitious production collapsed after two years, Jodorowsky's team of then relatively unknown concept artists continued exploring the themes and styles started on the project and ended up changing modern science fiction forever.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1935156/
Psicomagia
IMO Alejandro Jodorowsky understands something about the genius of creating mythic story. He is a master of the observing function of true imagineering capacity. Art is a healing path for the practitioner. I think it can be true when art is viewed as a way to trigger unconscious information. So movies can be an active process.
"While living in Mexico, Alejandro Jodorowsky became familiar with the colorful and effective cures provided by folk healers. He realized that it is easier for the unconscious to understand the language of dreams than that of rationality. Illness can even be seen as a physical dream that reveals unresolved emotional and psychological problems. "
I hope to see his film The Dance of Reality, soon.
Alejandro Jodorowsky (is the) the visionary Chilean filmmaker behind cult classics El Topo and The Holy Mountain. In the radiantly visceral autobiographical film, a young Jodorowsky is confronted by a collection of compelling characters that contributed to his burgeoning surreal consciousness. The legendary filmmaker was born in 1929 in Tocopilla, a coastal town on the edge of the Chilean desert, where the film was shot. Blending his personal history with metaphor, mythology, and poetry, The Dance of Reality reflects Jodorowsky’s philosophy that reality is not objective but rather a “dance” created by our own imaginations. http://danceofrealitymovie.com/
This reminded me of one of my favorites:
Meetings With remarkable Men.
Peter Brooks made a film fairly true to an account of Gurdjieff's reminiscences about various "remarkable men" that he has met, beginning with his father. They include the Armenian priest Pogossian; his friend Soloviev, Prince Lubovedsky, a Russian prince with metaphysical interests, and a couple of others.
In the course of describing these characters, Gurdjieff weaves their stories into the story of his own travels, and also into an overarching narrative which has them cooperate in locating spiritual texts and/or masters in various lands (mostly Central Asia).
found here
And that led me to remember Peter Brook's Mahabarata