Editing Alejandro Jodorowsky (section)

=== Early comics and films ===
In 1957, while Jodorowsky was in Paris studying mime, he created ''[[Les têtes interverties]]'' (''The Severed Heads''), a 20-minute adaptation of [[Thomas Mann]]'s novella. It consisted almost entirely of mime and told the surreal story of a head-swapping merchant who helps a young man find courtship success. Jodorowsky played the lead role. The director [[Jean Cocteau]] admired the film and wrote an introduction for it. It was considered lost until a print of the film was discovered in 2006.

In 1966, he produced his first comic strip, ''Anibal 5'', which was related to the Panic Movement. The following year he created a new feature film, ''[[Fando y Lis]]'',<ref name="empire-oct-09" /> loosely based on a play written by [[Fernando Arrabal]], who was working with Jodorowsky on [[performance art]] at the time. ''Fando y Lis'' premiered at the 1968 [[Acapulco]] Film Festival, where it instigated a riot amongst those objecting to the film's content,<ref name="Rosenbaum92">Rosenbaum, 1992. p. 92</ref> and was subsequently banned in Mexico.<ref name="Rosenbaum93">Rosenbaum, 1992. p. 93</ref>