
El Topo - Alejandro Jodorowsky
Past event
Cancelled
Postponed
20 Sept.'25
- 19:00
John Baldessari's favorites - Rooftop screenings
Declared a masterpiece by no less than John Lennon himself, El Topo tops even the most outrageous aesthetic experiments of its radical era and remains unmatched in its provocations and strange beauty. This legendary, notorious cult hit essentially created the genre of the midnight movie — a spectacle so stunning and bizarre that normal hours couldn’t contain it. Incorporating influences from tarot to the Bible to surrealism into a mind-blowing western, Jodorowsky cast himself as the leather-clad gunman, El Topo (‘the mole’), who wanders through a desert strewn with mystical symbols on an unnamed quest, leaving blood and carnage in his wake. Long unavailable, 'El Topo' is presented in a gorgeous restoration personally overseen by Jodorowsky.
In John Baldessari's studio, the TV was always on, tuned to channels that played a steady stream of films. Even when he went out the door, the monitor stayed on for his dog Benny. Films - from B-movies to Westerns - became a kind of background noise for Baldessari. The films that caught his attention even got a place in his artworks: Hollywood film stills from the 1940s to 1960s were cropped, scaled, and complemented with Baldessari's colourful forms. Bozar shows a selection of his favourite cinematic gems.
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Rooftop
Rue Ravenstein 23 1000 BRUSSELSLanguage
- Spanish
- Subtitles: English