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Mount Analogue
A live performance by Charlie Jimenez & Sioul Blaphate hosted as a pre-show to Rebel Reel CineClub's 'A Most Unholy Christmas' - a screening of Alejandro Jodorowsky's The Holy Mountain (1973) at Rio Cinema, 17th December, 2024. The performance is a live-theatre and dance piece loosely inspired by Jodorowsky's film and its influenced source Mount Analogue. Through dance, masks, and live-theatre, Mount Analogue navigates a procession of ascension through transforming bodies and shapes. A primordial place of transformation, magic, and symbols.
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Details about the film "Mount Analogue" scheduled for release in 2025 are currently limited. The project is reportedly an adaptation of René Daumal's unfinished philosophical novel of the same name. The narrative is expected to follow a young man's spiritual quest to reach the summit of Mount Analogue, a mythical mountain whose summit is accessible only to those who have truly begun their ascent. The journey is fraught with philosophical challenges, encounters with strange characters, and profound self-discovery as the protagonist navigates the absurd and the spiritual.
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The original novel "Mount Analogue" by René Daumal was left unfinished upon his death in 1944. It has since become a cult classic, celebrated for its surreal exploration of spiritual seeking and existentialism. The film adaptation aims to capture this unique and challenging literary spirit.
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