The Way of Imagination: Exploring Psychomagic and the Magic of Film with Jodorowsky

2024-02-01 02:39:04

Published on February 1, 2024 at 03:39. / Modified on February 1, 2024 at 03:41.

In the library lounge of his Parisian apartment, giant Marseille tarot cards, La Tempérance and Le Mat (also called Le Fou), welcome visitors. Hundreds of books devoted to magic line the walls. It’s for a test that we came, The Way of Imaginationwhich appears at Actes Sud: an introduction to psychomagic, a discipline invented by the master of the place, which challenges our prejudices, mixes art, life and magic, temperance and madness.

Still in the living room, Steven Jay Schneider’s guide, 1001 films to see before you die. It contains one of our host’s feature films, the initiatory western The mole (1970), which John Lennon admired and helped make famous. A flamboyant and mystical UFO. The main role ofThe mole is provided by Jodorowsky himself, dressed all in black leather. El Topo, the bloodthirsty bandit, becomes a saint once the desert and its trials have crushed his selfishness.

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