This lecture will discuss how films, as moving images, can act for a culture as dreams do for individuals. In conjunction, it will present and examine the 2021 satirical film, Don’t Look Up, which metaphorically portrays our culture’s response to the climate crisis. Group discussions will include amplifications of personal and cultural meanings emerging from the film’s images and themes. Through watching video clips, together we will actively imagine into the images and consider the following questions:
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- What is being revealed in the film about the psychology surrounding our responses to the climate crisis?
- What images in Don’t Look Up speak to shifting archetypal dynamics and emerging myths?
- How might this film (and films in general) have the power to move us?
