Immaculate Vibes.

How to elevate your dire mood with two directors who dabble in creative joy: Hayao Miyazaki and Wes Anderson.

I’m sensing that some of you a lot of you need this.

We are all seeking a little joy wherever we can find it away from the national mood, and not everybody has chosen (or has the mindset to sustain) a total news blackout for their mental health, like yours truly, who just logged six months and counting.

And not every television series I’m drawn to — and curate for this space — has the same uplifting madness of, say, “The Studio.” I fear that if we all watched “Silo” together again it might be catastrophic.

My recent full body hug of “Black Mirror” certainly had the capacity to inch us closer to that line which we shouldn’t get comfortable being so close to.

I wanted to suggest, then, two directors who are always alive with creative magic, the kind that seeps through the screen regardless of the subject matter they are exploring.

In that process, we as viewers are regularly given stories of humanity, quirk, ambition, complex but digestible narrative themes and a cumulative sense — in everything they do — that they are taking you away from the life you’re living in the moment and transplanting you somewhere else.

That new view of the world, of their created worlds, can be awe inspiring or intellectually stimulating in a way that lets us see again, with a little more rose in the tint.

Let’s dive into some excellent mood-altering offerings from Wes Anderson and Hayao Miyazaki, and after a look at their strengths, I’ll suggest two movies each that you should start with, so none of this feels accidentally like a burden:

Mood.