Monday, October 14, 2024
7pm ET

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In the successful horror film Midsommar (Ari Aster, USA/Sweden, 2019), we are taken to an idyllic Sweden and the shenanigans of a pagan cult. A group of American college students and their friend Dani (traumatized by her sister's suicide) are drawn into the cult's activities as they prepare for Midsummer Celebrations. What seems gentle and nature-loving at first soon turns into "folk" horror film mayhem, as Dani unwillingly (?) becomes the center of attention. 

Although Aster's film is a run-of-the-mill exploitation film, it does fulfill many of the requirements of the workings of what Carl Jung called the Collective Unconscious. What is presented as something negative and horrible actually comes across as relevant and inspiring from this perspective. Are we witnessing misdirected and possibly demagogic energies, or just a piece of the puzzle in a process of human consciousness waking up to threats of actual extinction? 

Tonight, join Swedish author and filmmaker Carl Abrahamsson as he presents Midsommar film from a new perspective, one that that illuminates the fact that culture as such is never a one way communication, and that crass cultural appropriation and attempts at mockery have the potential to backfire. 

Carl Abrahamsson is a Swedish author and filmmaker, especially interested in Occulture and the Creative Process.