The Jodorowsky Kid Casts Stoya and Calls It Art

If your father is Alejandro Jodorowsky—the man who made El Topo, who co-created The Incal with Moebius, who reportedly inspired John Lennon to write Imagine—you have exactly two options: disappear into the shadow of that legacy or go completely unhinged in the other direction. Adan Jodorowsky, who records under the name Adanowsky, chose the latter and did not look back.

The video for Would You Be Mine stars Stoya, which already tells you everything you need to know about the temperature of the thing. Add two geishas, a flood of pink, mustaches, crosses, and Adanowsky himself prowling through it all with the self-regard of a man who has genuinely decided he is the greatest lover of our era—a predator, a god, whatever he’s feeling that Tuesday—and you have something sitting exactly at the intersection of art provocation and beautiful, shameless absurdity.

What the mustaches and the religious iconography are supposed to signify is probably best left open. The video doesn’t explain itself, and it shouldn’t. It operates in the family tradition of work that refuses to be decoded, that insists on being felt as sensation before it’s read as meaning—and maybe never after. Whether that’s genius or self-indulgence is a distinction the Jodorowskys have never particularly cared about, and honestly neither should you.

Don’t watch this at work unless you’re prepared for consequences. Or do. Some consequences are worth it.