1 Imagination and Event in Uexküll and Bazin Jonathan Wright In this paper, I will bring together Jakob von Uexküll’s 1934 book, A Foray Into the Worlds of Animals and Humans with André Bazin’s essay “The Virtues and Limitations of Montage.” Despite the many major differences in style and methodology between these texts, I find a common interest in the imagination and the event. In order to develop these shared concerns, I will first briefly introduce Uexküll’s system and then integrate some of his ideas into Bazin’s text with a focus first on the imagination, and then the event. It is important to get a sense of the way Uexküll situates his project and its central concept of Umwelt. A Foray Into the Worlds of Animals and Humans is a text made up primarily of examples from the biology of animals. These examples serve to promote Uexküll’s hypothesis that the perceptual worlds of different species radically differ from one another, but that these differences are not always insurmountable for the imagination. While the bulk of Uexkull’s Foray is animal biology, I will highlight the comments scattered throughout Uexküll’s text that bring to bear the larger perceptual, imaginary, methodological, and ethical aspects of his position. I am more interested in the general approach and system that Uexkull develops rather than the application of that system in individual examples. What is perhaps most immediately arresting about Uexküll’s project is the way he opens it: with a call to imagine. “We begin such a stroll on a sunny day before a flowering meadow in which insects buzz and butterflies flutter, and we make a bubble around each of the animals