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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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Psyche's cinema - short films
Jung's work has shown us that fairy tales, like dreams, are not what they seem to be. There is a fwisdom in myths and fairy See More
Psyche's cinema - short films
I always tell students not to memorize my lecture, but to try to interpret fairy tales themselves, for that is the only way to learn. See More
Psyche's cinema - short films
Sometimes when I do not understand a fairy tale, I use myths as parallels because the greater closeness to consciousness of the myth material often See More
Psyche's cinema - short films
The fairy tale is therapeutic because the patient finds his own solutions, through contemplating what the story seems to imply about him and his inner See More
Psyche's cinema - short films
Our inner world is reality, reality even more real than the apparent world; to call fantasy or fairy tale what merely seems illogical means that See More
Psyche's cinema - short films
A general archetypal motif, found not only in our religious system but also in fairy tales and innumerable myths everywhere, is that the hero commits See More
Psyche's cinema - short films
The hare was a sacred and mystical animal to the Celts; a symbol of abundance, prosperity and good fortune. They were believed to have connections See More
Psyche's cinema - short films
Among the pueblo tribes, Coyote stories are reserved for winter telling. Certain tales of Eastern Europe are only told in autumn after harvest. In archetypal See More
Psyche's cinema - short films
Hieros gamos (sacred marriage) is the ending of many tales. After the trials of the hero, these marriages might represent the union of opposites within. See More
Psyche's cinema - short films
Just as our body has to have nutritive substances circulating through the organism, the soul needs fairy tale substance flowing through its spiritual veins. Rudolf See More
Psyche's cinema - short films
Just as our body has to have nutritive substances circulating through the organism, the soul needs fairy tale substance flowing through its spiritual veins. Rudolf See More
Psyche's cinema - short films
Yay. A drive-in movie event in San Francisco. Wish I could go.
Psyche's cinema - short films
In time for Halloween, here's my interview with the wonderful Rick Palmer and his podcast Some other sphere
Episode 141 - Laura Lewis-Barr - Illness States, Symbology and the Paranormal
For this episode, I welcome back previous guest Laura Lewis-Barr. Laura first appeared on Some Other Sphere in episode 116, where we discussed her work as a stop-motion filmmaker, creating short movies inspired by myths, fairy tales and the ideas of people such as Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell. This...
Psyche's cinema - short films
All our films are now back up on the website and free to watch, including this early film, directly inspired by the work of Marie See More
The Linguist: A Fairy Tale Film
A comedy - part of our film series exploring depth-psychology, spirituality, and myths. Looking at culture thorugh a Jungian lens. A fairy tale film.
Psyche's cinema - short films
A dark comedy, made a few years ago. Now much darker based on current realities.
The Split - Comedies On Culture - Psyche's Cinema - Short Films
Part of our series of comedies on culture. Our animated film series explores depth-psychology, spirituality, sulture, fairy tales and myths.
Psyche's cinema - short films
Our fairy tale film, "The Two Travelers" is perfect for the season. We made it with inspiration from Marie Louise Von Franz's seminal book - See More
Psyche's cinema - short films
Using projective dream techniques on our films. We can ask ourselves, if this were my dream....
Psyche's cinema - short films
I think this is more true today. “It is quite possible--overwhelmingly probable, one might guess--that we will always learn more about human life and personality See More
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