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This film is, on one level, a portrait documentary, about Ross and Marion Woodman. Through the lens of Ross Woodman’s life, the film is also an exploration of psychological and spiritual matters. It is a study of how individuation – growing down into your self and your soul – how that flourishes in relationship, sometimes even more so when grounded in a particular place; how identity can be fluid, and psyche, always in process; and what happens if your mentor is sort of a trickster, a guide to the land of the dead or, in another mythology, a rebel angel.

The poet Keats said that a person’s life can be read as a continuous allegory, and both Ross and Marion Woodman certainly lived as if that was true. 

Rebel Angel paints a portrait of the evanescent cultural figure Ross Woodman (1922-2014), Jungian author Marion Woodman, and their extraordinary marriage. Ross played a key role in the ‘Regionalist’ art scene in London, Ontario in the 1960s which gave us many of Canada’s most significant artists from that period. Marion was first introduced to Jung’s thought by Ross before they were married in the late 1950s.  He accompanied Marion through her journey as a pioneering Jungian analyst who is credited with bringing the Feminine into depth psychology. A champion of creative imagination, he was also an original interpreter of depth psychology in the context of his profound knowledge of world literature and religions, particularly the Baha’i faith. His generosity as a mentor, and his pure artistry as a lecturer on the poetry of Blake, Shelley and the Romantics made him unforgettable, life changing. Through the prism of Woodman’s deeply troubled life, the film maker explores the dynamic among, love, creativity and madness in movies, poetry and art.

I am pleased to offer Rebel Angel online, worldwide through Vimeo on Demand here. Find out why viewers in 20 countries are streaming this award-winning movie. here is the trailer. In December 2022 the film received an award from the prestigious MANNHEIM FILM FESTIVAL in Germany. The film was a finalist for best documentary at the 2023 INTERNATIONAL ART FILM FESTIVAL  in Austin Texas, and is also distributed internationally through RESEARCH TV: Sharing Knowledge Through Film. You can order the DVD from the Ecotone SHOP in the top menu.

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT REBEL ANGEL:

Unbelievable. I laughed, I wept. I was overwhelmed. A glorious celebration and a beautiful film in every way.

—Karen Mulhallen, Poet, Editor of Descant magazine, Professor Emeritus Ryerson University

So much love there with zero sentimentality! I can’t remember watching a movie like that before. Threads of love running all through it: your love for Ross, his love for art and poetry, the love in the eyes of all his friends and colleagues remembering him, the love between Ross and Marion, and your love for film making.

—John Hoedl, Jungian Analyst, president and of the International Society for Psychology as the Discipline of Interiority

Far-reaching and filled with things I didn’t know about Woodman’s life and relationships and experiences, and about London and its art scene. It is a wonderful study of a cultural moment in Canada’s maturing cultural life. I screened the whole thing a second time and found the ideas more universal — i.e. less specific to Woodman. It seemed to say things about you (or me) or anyone who has fallen under the intense spell of the Romantic vision.

—Johanne Clare, author and Professor, George Brown College

I am utterly stunned by the brilliance and beauty and depth of Rebel Angel. Truly a masterpiece.

—David Haenke, Poet and Forest Manager, Ozark Regional Land Trust

A masterful labour of love.

—Deanne Bogdan, Professor Emerita, Department of Social Justice Education
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto

You’ve conveyed a complexity in Woodman that I found both convincing and intriguing. You’ve also evoked very effectively the spirit of a time, positioning his life historically in the context of London Ontario, and what Jung called the spirit of the depths as it informed that time, the angel manifesting in that particular time as a necessary rebel. This is so moving.

—Craig Stephenson, Jungian Analyst, author, Lisbon Portugal