Axel Jodorowsky

'La danza de la realidad' es una película experimental que narra la infancia de Alejandro Jodorrowsky ('La montaña sagrada', 'Santa Sangre') en Chile a través de sus propias y numerosas vivencias, todo un viaje del yo niño al yo adulto en la ciudad de Tocopilla.

After his dream project DUNE fell apart, visionary filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky took a break from cinema, only to return over a decade later with his most triumphant work: SANTA SANGRE.

On stormy night in an ugly urban landscape, Ciro Norte, a scientist with wild hair and thick glasses, straps himself to a chair he's has fashioned with wires: lightening strikes, convulsing him. It seems his experiment has not worked. The next day, he drives his jalopy to a bar, sits alone, and weeps. But suddenly, a vortex sucks him into a dream state where he wanders, escapes man-eating fish, confronts his doppelganger, walks through a field of giant flowers, and comes upon Venus herself, buried up to her shoulders in sand. She is a giant, and she takes him to her breast. He wakes from the vortex, back in the bar, his mood transformed.

On stormy night in an ugly urban landscape, Ciro Norte, a scientist with wild hair and thick glasses, straps himself to a chair he's has fashioned with wires: lightening strikes, convulsing him. It seems his experiment has not worked. The next day, he drives his jalopy to a bar, sits alone, and weeps. But suddenly, a vortex sucks him into a dream state where he wanders, escapes man-eating fish, confronts his doppelganger, walks through a field of giant flowers, and comes upon Venus herself, buried up to her shoulders in sand. She is a giant, and she takes him to her breast. He wakes from the vortex, back in the bar, his mood transformed.

Ninón, singer, decides to escape from her frustrated love life, and leaves in search of an old love, finding on the way Alberto, who is on the run from the police

Un niño que trabaja en el circo de su padre como mago y mimo, y cuya madre es una fanática religiosa que lidera una secta apocalíptica llamada "Santa Sangre", experimenta una serie de atroces vivencias que lo llevan a ser recluido en un hospital psiquiátrico. Ya adulto, emprende un viaje interior cuya meta es liberarse de los fantasmas que lo atosigan. (FILMAFFINITY)

Three episodes: 1) "A Christmas dinner" where the family members fantasize about being somewhere else. The fetishist father wants to put on feminine clothes. The son longs for another transvestite adventure. The daughter yearns to be a singer and destroy the saints of the church with her voice. The youngest son wants to stab everyone dead. 2) "Game of mirrors". Two young classmates kiss on a picnic, but the girl's brother accuses the couple of being immoral. Bizarre things develop. 3) "Tetrahedron". A very fat man faces his girlfriend's longing for love.