The Creative Adventure

Here's the concept: a board certified psychiatrist/creativity consultant explores the creative process using the metaphors of love, conception, and birth. Here's the result: an overproduced, overlong presentation better suited to textbook format. The basic content is pretty straightforward: creative people live more vital and effective lives; viewers should set goals but remain flexible; when solving problems, we should consider all our options...but it's couched in a litany of psychobabble (creativity occurs at the interface, connect with your anima, and my personal favorite: "suchness"), all delivered in a monotonous drone. To further obscure matters, this commentary is interspersed with stylized, sophisticated graphics (much too complicated to follow without a firm grip on the freeze frame button), and ludicrous warm and fuzzy shots of the presenter sailing, playing the piano, leaning on a hatchet and even taking a shower! Too much medium, not enough message. Not recommended. Aud: C, P. (J. Reed)