Fellini’s Dream Sequences: Craft Lessons from 8½

Reading Time: 7 minutesItalian director and screenwriter Federico Fellini never studied psychology, but he spent decades in Jungian analysis, and the collaboration shaped everything he made. His dream sequences do not look like Freudian symptoms or surrealist provocations. They look like remembered dreams: specific, emotionally coherent, visually strange in ways that feel true to how the dreaming mind… Continue reading Fellini’s Dream Sequences: Craft Lessons from 8½