PSYCHOMACIG
France, 2019 - 100’
Direction: Alejandro Jodorowsky / Screenplay: Alejandro Jodorowsky / Producer: Guy Avivi, Xavier Guerrero Yamamoto / Cinematography: Pascale Montandon-Jodorowsky / Music: Adan Jodorowsky / Editor: Arnaud Cachau, Giuseppe Lupoi / Distributor: Mescalito
Psychomagic is the most therapeutic work of Alejandro Jodorowsky. Through real testimonials he explains what is the psychomagic, what are its principles and how it is practiced. It shows us some people during their healing process, from the realization of their "psychomagic act" until the demonstration of their effects.
For Jodorowsky, many of our problems result from the barriers created by our society, our family and our culture, all factors that prevent us from finding our true self. Psychomagic helps people get rid from these chains.
Psychomagic acts have a strong impact on the unconscious. They are often impressive and highly cinematographic. The film goes over fiction filming the reality, but with an augmented, magical and healing reality.
"Psicomagia - an art to heal" is the great master's manifesto film.
Alejandro Jodorowsky Prullansky (1929) is an author, poet, composer, mime, painter, cinematographic producer, screenwriter and director of Chilean originis naturalized French citizen. His fame is largely due to some of the films he directed, such as his first feature film, the surreal Fando y Lis, based on namesake theatre play by Fernando Arrabal. El Topo (1971) is his second work and the one that made him known to international audiences, so much to lead John Lennon to finance Jodorowky’s next film, The Holy Mountain (1973). After 1980’s Tusk, avant-guard horror film Santa Sangre, written in collaboration with Claudio Argento and Roberto Leoni, arrived on cinema screens, followed in 1990 by The Rainbow Thief. Thirteen years later Jodorowsky realised the first two films of a potential autobiographical series made of five films, Dance of reality and his last work, Endless poetry, which premiered in Italy in 2018.
