Country:Mexico

Director:Alejandro Jordorowsky

Program:The Lineage of Parallel Cinema

Summary:

Jordorowsky daringly blends resplendant ritual, outright kitsch and provocative excess. A Christlike figure wanders through bizarre, grotesque scenarios filled with alternately religious and sacrilegious imagery. He meets a mystical guide who introduces him to seven wealthy and powerful individuals, each representing a planet in the solar system.

Country:Mexico

Director:Alejandro Jordorowsky

Program:The Lineage of Parallel Cinema

Summary:

This psychedelic and allegorical western saga prompted a new approach to exhibition of independent and alternative cinema. It is honored as the first midnight movie (films which play continuously for years in weekend midnight screenings). The title refers to a mole who after determinedly burrowing through the ground reaches the surface of the earth only to be blinded by the sun. At the outset, the gunfighter known as El Topo and his young son ride through a desert to a village, whose inhabitants have been massacred.

Country:Mexico

Director:Alejandro Jordorowsky

Summary:

Jodorowsky’s first feature is loosely based on a play written by Fernando Arrabal in that he filmed it as he remembered it without recourse to the text. The result in a perverse third world fable that is eager to stretch the boundaries of the acceptable. The film follows Fando and his paraplegic girlfriend Lis searching amid a destroyed world for a mythic city called Tar where all their wishes will be fulfilled. But, instead, they are corrupted and driven mad.