Chilean filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky, the man behind surreal masterpieces "Holy Mountain" and "El Topo," gave the following interview to a Spanish television program last year. I originally saw the clip on one of Harry Gamboa Jr.'s rich email newsletters months ago. The moment Jodorowsky reaches out to make physical contact with his interviewer is thrilling. It merits another viewing, but it is not subtitled:
Some highlights of Jodoroswky's words, in my translation:
"Think of the work and not of the fruit of the work, every action you make, make it like a sacrifice to the divine, and always work knowing that you have an interior God." ...
"Life has no meaning, but we must live it." ...
"Everything that is, is here, in this instant. If there is heaven, it is here. If there is Paradise, it is here. If I am here, where else can I be but here? ...
"We are not destroying ourselves, we are writhing like a worm that will give birth to a butterfly, we are in a full human mutation, we can no longer live like this." ...
"We're mutants, we're mutating. We are the fathers and mothers of a new human race." ...
"We're passing through this final anguish, in which everything falls. Religion falls, politics falls, the economy falls, industry falls. And so, there will be no revolution, there will be re-evolution, there will be mutation."
Don't you miss truly engaging television like that? I do. * See more on Alejandro Jodorowsky here and here. More clips.