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The Holy Mountain
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Fri Jul 20
11 pm
The Holy Mountain at Jackpot Gallery
In the early ’70s, Alejandro Jodorowsky was an underground cinema superstar who blew minds at midnight-movie houses with Buñuel-derived mayhem angled straight at the third eye of hippies everywhere. His biggest production was 1973’s The Holy Mountain, a scabrous satire of organized religion that follows a Christ figure, his disciples, and their bloody quest for the home of the gods they plan to depose. Witty, disgusting, eye-popping, and incomprehensible, The Holy Mountain is a relic from an age when art films had pop and every midnight show was a “happening.”
Jackpot Gallery 825 E. Center St., Milwaukee, WI
In the early ’70s, Alejandro Jodorowsky was an underground cinema superstar who blew minds at midnight-movie houses with Buñuel-derived mayhem angled straight at the third eye of hippies everywhere. His biggest production was 1973’s The Holy Mountain, a scabrous satire of organized religion that follows a Christ figure, his disciples, and their bloody quest for the home of the gods they plan to depose. Witty, disgusting, eye-popping, and incomprehensible, The Holy Mountain is a relic from an age when art films had pop and every midnight show was a “happening.”
Updated 07/11/2012
