IGNATIUS - the God Seeker
Animated Documentary - Length 60 Minutes
Synopsis
Have you ever wondered what moves the Jesuits at their core? This innovative animated documentary about the founder of the Jesuits reveals his inner quest for God, and invites you to become a spiritual seeker yourself.
In his radical quest for God, Ignatius discovers in his mystical experience at the Cardoner river in Spain that God speaks to him not only in Scripture or Tradition, but is truly present in everything. Ignatius systematizes his spiritual experiences in his “Spiritual Exercises” into a path for all seekers of God. To this day, the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises are not only the spiritual foundation of Jesuits worldwide, but have shaped the relationship with God of thousands of people.
Can you really find God in everything? How do I find God's will for me? The film “Ignatius - the God Seeker” takes up the essential insights and processes of the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises and translates them into a vivid visual language. God is not to be found by withdrawing from the world, but in its discovery, appreciation, indeed in its loving embrace. This has been the message of the Jesuits through the centuries, a message that can change the Catholic Church to this day, so that it becomes more mystical, more open, more embracing, and above all, more loving.
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Some Thoughts for an Introduction
There is a theoretical background in psychology that is at work in this film. It is the thesis that our subconscious mind is not good at understanding propositional language. It does, however, understand symbols and pictures. It is implicitly claimed that Ignatius in his exercises discovered this psychological fact long before Carl G. Jung discovered the collective archetypal unconscious, or more modern approaches discovered the holistic, non-linguistic subconscious information processing in the right hemisphere. So the pictures in the film are meant to speak to the unconscious mind. They are based on pictures by great painters (like Titian and El Greco) that Ignatius might have known. The audience should not try to intellectually grasp the meaning of those images, rather let them sink into the subconscious mind which is so important for religious knowledge. The rational mind will get nourished by the expert interviews that are also part of the film.
Copyright
Any form of non-commercial use of the film, trailers, photos etc. and all materials on www.ignatius-godseeker.org and www.spiritual-exercises.org is permitted. This includes downloading. If you have any questions, please contact Fr. Christof Wolf SJ, chwolf"at"jesuits.net. If possible, please indicate copyright: Loyola Productions Munich.