The Dance of Reality

“Having broken away from my illusory self, I was desperately seeking a path and a meaning to life.” This phrase perfectly sums up Alejandro Jodorowsky’s biographical project: reconstituting the incredible adventure of his life. Alejandro Jodorowsky was born in 1929 in Tocopilla, a coastal town on edge of the Chilean desert, where this film was shot. It was there where he discovered the fundamentals of reality, as he underwent an unhappy and alienated childhood as part of an uprooted family.

Cast

Brontis Jodorowsky

as Jaime

Pamela Flores

as Sara

Jeremias Herskovits

as Child Alejandro

Alejandro Jodorowsky

as Old Alejandro

Bastián Bodenhöfer

as Carlos Ibañez

Andrés Cox

as Don Aquiles

Adan Jodorowsky

as Anarchist

Axel Jodorowsky

as Teósofo

Alizarine Ducolomb

as Hunchback Woman

Sergio Vargas

as Carpenter

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