Imaginal Journal

Imagination is Medicine

Cristy Cristy

Midnight in Paris

Midnight in Paris.

Mr. Allen does it again and casts a purple-rose-in-cairo-kind-of-spell on me. Owen Wilson as Woody Allen actually works for me and characters are annoying because they are and magical because they are.

A practice in allowing film to romance us into life through magical realism.

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Cristy Cristy

Not Great Men

Gang of Four “Not Great Men” cover.

Something magic about women from the east giving this song new meaning and life.

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Cristy Cristy

Beginners

Beginners.


A tender portrait of a man accepting the humanity and misgivings of his parents marriage, as his father owns the authenticity of his sexuality and selfhood, thereby rendering him an opportunity to relate to his own life and relationships more fully.  

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Cristy Cristy

Primal Dance

Pina Bausch choreography of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring. Rattles the psyche, doesn’t it?

Deeply valuing dance as expression of human plight.

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