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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
“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, See more
Psyche's cinema - short films
The passage into mystery always refreshes. If, when we work, we can look once a day upon the face of mystery, then our labor satisfies. See more
Psyche's cinema - short films
Sometimes life just feels like this.... In the dark forest. Still from "The Linguist." You're invited to watch this 7 minute film, let us know See more
Psyche's cinema - short films
The Grimm tale, The Three Languages, invites us to consider times in our life when our logical brain said one thing, but a raw, instinctual See more
Psyche's cinema - short films
In our stop-motion film The Linguist, Daphne spends the first act trying desperately to please a demanding mother. Where in your life are you standing See more
Psyche's cinema - short films
I hadn’t been back in my studio for a LONG time. Finally today I was able to start filming again! But maybe the THRESHOLD GUARDIANS See more
Psyche's cinema - short films
Back in the studio with Rumpelstiltskin! He's kind of scary.
Psyche's cinema - short films
Classic fairy tales, deploying wonders and inspiring astonishment, depend on magic as causation; magic is part of the fabric of everyday reality, which is permeated See more
Psyche's cinema - short films
The original Grimm Brothers' tale of The Three Languages was written about a son and his demanding father. When I sat down to adapt it See more
Psyche's cinema - short films
Because the kind of fairy tale that expresses collective structures touch emotions more deeply, it stays better in one's memory. Also, this happens naturally in See more
Psyche's cinema - short films
The fairytale’s typically supernatural world can be regarded as the best possible metaphor for the actual arena of psychic happening which we confront within ourselves See more
Psyche's cinema - short films
Excited! Nice to be an official selection.
Psyche's cinema - short films
David L Hart studied with Marie Louise Von Franz. I love his little book filled with wisdom. "Fairytales have been told, retold and handed down See more
Psyche's cinema - short films
Quote from the wonderful Erich Fromm. "If it is true that the ability to be puzzled is the beginning of wisdom, then this truth is See more
Psyche's cinema - short films
Artists are magical helpers. Evoking symbols and motifs that connect us to our deeper selves, they can help us along the heroic journey of our See more
Psyche's cinema - short films
Poem 18 – March 4, 2026
Psyche's cinema - short films
From my "write one poem a day" series - Poem 13.
Poem 13 – 2/25/26
Psyche's cinema - short films
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