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This film—by Mark and Susan Kidel and James Hillman—defends the notion that being blue isn’t to be avoided at all costs, but embraced, as the Ancients and pre-scientific philosophers and healers had done, realizing that going “down” offered a pathway to wisdom and wholeness, an experience of life in which darkness suffering had as much of a place as light and well-being.  Arising out of the writings and lectures of James Hillman—and threaded around an interview with the renowned and iconoclastic archetypal psychologist—the film evokes the melancholy mood with the help of a rich variety of images—works of art by Rembrandt, Munch, Picasso, Giorgone, Cranach, Dürer and others, and the music of Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Ray Charles, Bartok, Bach, Beethoven, Geoffrey Oryema, and the Irish ulleiann piper Liam O’Flynn. There are allusions to mythology—Saturn and Innana in particular—and contributions from two manic depressive writers. stay for a discussion with the filmmaker!