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Exploring Jungian Psychology Through Short Films. (Formally Lauralewisbarrfilms.com) LAUGH!
Join us to explore psychology, spirituality, and innerwork — through fairytales, mythology, storytelling and homemade stop motion films!
We love the work of Carl Jung, Joseph Campbell, Michael Meade, Marie Louise Von Franz, Edward Edinger, Helen Luke….
Thoughtful films, made with love.
I’m Laura Lewis-Barr, an award-winning stop-motion filmmaker and educator.
My focus is on animating fairy tales and mythic stories for personal and collective transformation.
I make my micro budget films in my basement in Chicago.
Fairy tales are the simplest and purest expressions of the collective unconscious and thus offer the clearest understanding of the basic patterns of the human psyche. -Marie Louise Von Franz
Practicing symbolic thinking is often (in Edward Edinger’s words) a “defeat for the ego.” Continuing to practice is important, as well as being willing to “not know or understand.” Our films are one way that we practice learning the language of the unconscious. This is the language of dreams, myths, fairy tales, art, scripture, and synchronicities.
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Have you seen this short (7 min) #fairytale film, based on the Grimm tale, "The Three Languages?" It is one of our earlier experiments in stop motion,, inspired by our reading of Marie Louise Von Franz.
The Linguist: A Fairy Tale Film - Psyche's Cinema - Short Films
A comedy - part of our film series exploring depth-psychology, spirituality, and myths. Looking at culture thorugh a Jungian lens. A fairy tale film.
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I love this film!
Snow White, Rose Red, and the Little Capitalist has been chosen for their yearly festival! Yay!
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That is great news!
I'd love your vote in the Spark the Vote Challenge. Mine is Snow White And Rose Red Vote! Click on the climate videos and scroll down. thank you! www.whydoyou.vote/challenge
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... the little man takes her personal worth, i.e., her self-esteem, away from her. This is what this negative animus does indeed do: he takes away any & all of a woman’s positive self-worth feelings, the feelings she has about her own worth
Von Franz re the #fairytale Rumpelstiltskin
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Yay! You can watch this 7 minute film here!
psychescinema.com/snow-white-rose-red-the-little-capitalist/
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This Jungian level of interpretation, applied to the #fairytale as well as to the dream, relieves the hearer or reader of that objective literalness which too often condemns fairy tales (& dreams) to the discard pile of either “wish fulfillment” or “an interesting story"
Jungian Analyst David L. Hart, from his book “The Water of Life”
Still from our update on the Grimm tale, The Two Travelers. psychescinema.com/free-short-films/the-two-travelers-part-1-of-3/
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The muse who has claimed me, Thalia, muse of comedy, holding a comic mask. Detail from the “Muses Sarcophagus”, representing the nine Muses and their attributes. Marble, first half of the 2nd century AD, Louvre
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Love that mask!
Have you seen our newest film? Based on the old Grimm #fairytale, Snow White and Rose Red. Our page also features commentary by Jungian Marie Louise Von Franz.
Snow White Rose Red & The Little Capitalist - Grimm
Snow White Rose Red & the Little Capitalist. Part of a series of Jungian-inspired short films. With reflections from Marie Louise Von Franz.
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Yes! This film is full of very rich images that speak to my soul.
(The #fairytale)…"appears to be a metaphor for the conflicts, perils, failures and triumphs of spiritual existence.”
Jungian analyst David L. Hart, from his book, “The Water of Life”
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"#fairytales have been told, retold and handed down as sacred stories because they are expressions of a reality which has been traditionally recognized throughout the world as precious and vital to human life. Long before our contemporary interpretations, they stood for themselves as self-sustaining and self-explanatory. They had the rightness and finality of myths.”
Jungian Analyst David L. Hart, from his book “The Water of Life”
Still from our film, "The Linguist" based on the Grimm Tale, "The Three Languages.
psychescinema.com/free-short-films/the-linguist/
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My tiny homemade films + my feature scripts = happiness. Dreaming of this script getting made.
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Our latest newsletter with info about the making of our newest film, health and symbols, and upcoming screenings!
psychescinema.com/psyches-cinema-august-2024-art-and-recovery/
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(Re:#fairytales) I am convinced that there is an organic life in these stories which seeks to reveal and confirm itself through those who take them up and seriously expound them. There is a meaning which “wants” to become known and which “uses” us for that purpose.
David L. Hart, The Water of Life
(Still from our newest film. Snow White and Rose Red find themselves in a clear-cut forest)
psychescinema.com/snow-white-rose-red-the-little-capitalist/
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“The most we can do is to dream the myth onwards and give it a modern dress. And whatever explanation or interpretation does to it, we do to our own soul as well, with corresponding results for our own well-being.” — #cgjung CW 9
Poster from our film exploring Percival and the Grail
psychescinema.com/free-short-films/percy-grows-up/
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If this were my dream....
Using film stills as prompts.... (From our film -The Split)
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“Like the sea itself, the unconscious yields an endless and self-replenishing abundance of creatures, a wealth beyond our fathoming.” — C.G. Jung
art- MET circa 340BC
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I won! "Ditching Destiny on Halloween" was just selected by @filmcrash - Best Romantic Comedy Feature Screenplay! Saturday Oct 12, Q and A with award winners in Los Angeles. Excited and grateful. @filmcrashscreenplaycontest @filmcrash
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Yay! My romantic comedy, many many drafts in, I've started to send it out. #screenwriting #WritingCommunity
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So excited for this! I love your work. I have my own doll.collection now too.
Thank you! Excited to hear about your dolls and your work with them. Thanks for the comment. xoxo