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Killer statues of Alejandro Jodorowsky as El Topo and The Alchemist


Unbox Industries statue of director Alejandro Jodorowsky as The Alchemist from his 1973 film, ‘The Holy Mountain.’
 
Hong Kong-based Unbox Industries is a cult favorite among figure collectors, and I should know as I am one myself. The company is well-known for working with fringe artists such as Japanese manga and horror film hero Hideshi Hino to bring some of his ghoulish characters to (so-to-speak) life. Other collaborations forged by Unbox include Argos Films and a figure based on the 1973 masterpiece, Fantastic Planet, and a series of figures in the uncanny image of David Firth‘s creepy character Salad Fingers, from his wildly popular Internet series of the same name. Recently, Unbox worked with San Francisco sculptor Andrea Blasich to produce two rather stunning statues of director Alejandro Jodorowsky in character as El Topo (from his 1970 film) and The Alchemist from his 1973 mindfuck, The Holy Mountain (pictured at the top of this post). Blasich worked with Jodorowsky to ensure the likeness was up to the legendary director’s standards.

Most figures made by Unbox are not playthings but works of art with hefty price tags. Despite that fact, many of their creations sell out quickly thanks to their dedicated fan base. If you’re interested in picking up one of the Jodorowsky statues, the fourteen-inch El Topo will run you $200 (limited to 200 pieces), and The Alchemist will hit your wallet for $225. I’ve posted various images of both statues below as well as the trio of fully articulated Salad Fingers figures below which retail for 25 bucks a pop.
 

 

 
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Posted by Cherrybomb
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11.29.2017
10:56 am
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Jewelry based on Alejandro Jodorowsky’s cult classic ‘The Holy Mountain’


A photo from AMBUSH’s ad campaign for their ‘Holy Mountain’ line of jewelry and accessories, 2012.
 

“You are excrement. You can change yourself into gold.”

—a quote from “The Alchemist” (played by Alejandro Jodorowsky) in The Holy Mountain

Back in 2012 Tokyo company AMBUSH created a line of jewelry and accessories based on the messed up imagery from Alejandro Jodorowsky’s 1973 film, The Holy Mountain. AMBUSH’s ad campaign for the line was ambitious, to say the least, and, as you might imagine, the line sold out quicker than you can say “The grave receives you with love.” It is possible to track some of the unique pieces down out there on the Internet such as Wrong Weather, Grailed, Big Cartel and sometimes eBay. I can’t lie, I want nearly everything from AMBUSH’s wearable homage to one of my favorite films of all time.

I’ve posted images from the ad campaign as well as several photos of items in the collection that are just too fucking cool. Some are NSFW, much like Mr. Jodorowsky himself.
 

“Eye Ring.”
 

Pin set. Available here.
 

Clutch with design inspired by ‘The Holy Mountain.’
 
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Posted by Cherrybomb
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08.28.2017
09:27 am
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‘The Holy Mountain’: Jodorowsky gets gif’d Amiga-style
10.18.2012
11:15 am
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Animated gif by Katzenjammer.

With thanks to Heather Drain!

Posted by Tara McGinley
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10.18.2012
11:15 am
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The Electric Cinema Acid Test: The trippiest movies ever made
08.16.2012
11:43 am
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Flavorwire crafted this video montage of some of the trippiest movies ever made:

Films (in order of appearance): The Trip (1967, Roger Corman), Head (1968, Bob Rafelson), Glaze of Cathexis (1990, Stan Brakhage), Allegro Non Troppo (1976, Bruno Bozzetto), Natural Born Killers (1994, Oliver Stone), Fantasia (1940, Armstrong, Algar, et. al), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, Stanley Kubrick), Viva La Muerte (1971, Fernando Arrabal), The Holy Mountain (1973, Alejandro Jodorowsky), Performance (1970, Donald Cammell and Nicholas Roeg), Videodrome (1983, David Cronenberg), Dark City (1998, Alex Proyas), Belle De Jour (1967, Luis Buñuel), Eraserhead (1977, David Lynch), El Topo (1970, Alejandro Jodorowsky), Tetsouro, the Iron Man (1989, Shin’ya Tsukamoto), Inland Empire (2006, David Lynch), Dead Alive (1992, Peter Jackson), Waking Life (2001, Richard Linklater), Anchorman (2004, Adam McKay), Mulholland Dr. (2001, David Lynch), Un Chien Andalou (1929, Luis Buñuel), Requiem for a Dream (2000, Darren Aronofsky), Lost Highway (1997, David Lynch), Pi (1998, Darren Aronofsky), Easy Rider (1969, Dennis Hopper), The Big Lebowski (1998, Joel Coen), Naked Lunch (1991, David Cronenberg), Skidoo (1968, Otto Preminger), Being John Malkovich (1999, Spike Jonze).

What no Sweet Movie? (Runs away).
 

Posted by Tara McGinley
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08.16.2012
11:43 am
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Alejandro Jodorowky’s ‘The Holy Mountain’ in all of its magical glory
05.11.2012
12:21 am
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Alejandro Jodorowsky’s El Topo and The Holy Mountain truly define the meaning of the words “head movie.” Both films have the capacity to alter your consciousness while you’re watching them and long thereafter. Like the afterglow of a deeply profound dream, El Topo has been a part of me, shifting the gears in the soft machine of my brain, since I first saw it in 1971 at a midnight screening in Denver, Colorado when I was 19 years old. It was in every respect a spiritual experience.

Years later, when I saw The Holy Mountain the impact was less transformative than seeing El Topo, but I was still thoroughly blown away by Jodorowsky’s Technicolor alchemy. His celluloid transmission was light years ahead of its time. Made in 1973, the film’s look and attitude seem totally of the moment. Yes, it has its hippy dippy moments and goes soft in places, but overall it’s an amazing piece of film making that in its visual design - sets, costumes, symbols, color palette - is as cutting edge as anything made by contemporary directors like David Lynch, Quentin Tarantino, Chan Wook-park or Gaspar Noé. The movie is breathtaking. And it looks like it cost 20 times its $750,000 budget. Amazing.

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If you’ve never seen The Holy Mountain, I suggest you see it on the big screen. Its visual wonders should be allowed to overwhelm and engulf you.

For home viewing, THM has been released in a beautiful Blu-ray transfer that is vast improvement over the fifth-generation bootlegged VHS copies that used to circulate among hardcore fans way back in the days before Jodorowsky’s praises were being sung by Marilyn Manson and Daniel Pinchbeck.

Normally I wouldn’t steer Dangerous Minds’ readers to a YouTube upload of something as visually sumptous as The Holy Mountain, but this happens to be really nice looking. Watch it and you’ll probably want to own it in remastered form, either on DVD or Blu-ray. Consider this as a kind of introduction, a full-length teaser, a first date with someone you’ll eventually marry.

Watch in 720p for a nice hi def image. This version has English dubbing, which is unfortunate but it doesn’t really diminish the overall experience.
 

Posted by Marc Campbell
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05.11.2012
12:21 am
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Halloween screening of Jodorowsky’s ‘The Holy Mountain’ at MoMA


 
ABKCO Films presents legendary director Alejandro Jodorowsky in a rare New York appearance with a Halloween screening of The Holy Mountain at MoMA:

Jodorowsky will introduce his visionary 1973 cult film The Holy Mountain, which famously played for sixteen straight months at New York’s Waverly Theater, at “An Evening with Alejandro Jodorowsky” on Monday, October 31, at 7 PM. The program serves as a coda to the exhibition of Jodorowsky’s work that was organized at MoMA PS1 earlier this year by Klaus Biesenbach.

Jodorowsky will take part in an onstage conversation with Klaus Biesenbach and Joshua Siegel.

The Holy Mountain is a surreal and picaresque satire depicting the journey of a Christ-like figure, the Thief, to a symbolic mountain that is said to unite Heaven and Earth. Playing the character of the Alchemist both on and off screen, Jodorowsky immersed his actors in months of preparatory spiritual and occult exercises, and was also responsible for the costume, set designs and for co-writing the musical score.

Tickets are $12 adults; $10 seniors, $8 full–time students. Admission is free for Museum members. Tickets and info. The Holy Mountain is out on Blu-ray DVD.
 

 

Posted by Richard Metzger
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10.27.2011
07:19 pm
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Jodorowsky on blast: El Topo and Holy Mountain get an audio-visual remix

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Didn’t think the films of mondo-psychedelico cult director Alejandro Jodorowsky could get any freakier? Think again.

Straight outta Mexico City come Arturo Gil of video firm XNOgrafikz and bass maniac DJ Saeg, putting the audio and visual cut-up method to full digital effect on Jodorowsky’s two most popular classics, El Topo and Holy Mountain. But instead of merely generating some arbitrary rave-video-projection material, Gil and Saeg took pains to use rhythmic repetition to crack the AJ code as much as possible, creating an even more anti-linear narrative in emotive tribute to the Jewish Chilean-French celluloid shaman.
 

 
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Posted by Ron Nachmann
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12.27.2010
12:49 pm
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