https://vo.rs/tags/surrealism/Latest from the Surrealism desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Wed, 04 Mar 2026 12:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/screen/the-holy-mountain-jodorowskys-alchemical-provocation/<p><em>The Holy Mountain</em> (1973) exists because a Beatle liked <em>El Topo</em>. That is the short version of one of the strangest financing stories in cinema: John Lennon and Yoko Ono, evangelised by Alejandro Jodorowsky&rsquo;s midnight-movie sensation, leaned on Allen Klein&rsquo;s ABKCO to bankroll whatever the Chilean provocateur wanted to make next. What he wanted to make was a million-dollar avant-garde epic about the alchemical transformation of the soul, staffed by non-actors he had reportedly put through weeks of spiritual and physical training, and ending on a gesture designed to detonate the very cult that had funded it. It is the most beautiful hostile act in the history of cult film, and half a century on it has lost none of its capacity to dazzle and offend in the same breath.</p>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 12:00:00 +0000