El Topo

(Mexico, 1970) Surrealist Western

El Topo is a hallucinatory trip across a sparkling desert landscape glittered with colorful delirium. Like a psychedelic mirage in the empty Mexican desert, Alejandro Jodorowsky plays the titular El Topo, emerging on horseback clad in black with his son clinging naked behind him. An undertaker of the desert, El Topo floats across the landscape experiencing the stories and evils which behold it, before he embarks on a spiraling symbolic quest to challenge ‘four masters of the desert’.