Hot off the generation-defining success of Easy Rider, Dennis Hopper took $1 million from Universal’s Lew Wasserman and hightailed it to Peru, with a mad band of collaborators, intent on making his masterpiece. The shoot’s drug-fuelled hedonism became notorious, but Hopper returned with hours of footage and began editing – calling on cult Chilean surrealist Alejandro Jodorowsky for advice. The experimental, self-reflexive result charts the story of a stuntman (Hopper) who stays in Peru after shooting wraps on a Western, believing he has found paradise, but who is drawn into danger when the locals begin making a ‘film’ of their own. Hopper’s audacious vision is testament to a more vital time in American cinema – a film as unique and uncompromising as its maker.

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