This article examines Paul Schrader’s film First Reformed (2017) from an ecocritical perspective, building on Lawrence Buell’s understanding of the climate crisis as a crisis of imagination, and the subsequent need and search for new, non-individualistic perspectives that could aid in the resolution of said crisis. I predominately employ two critical frameworks: affect theory and the concepts from Donna Haraway’s essay “Symbiogenesis, Sympoiesis, and Art Science Activisms for Staying with the Trouble.” Drawing on the notions of climate-induced anxiety and depression as well as Ann Cvetkovich’s term ‘public feeling,’ I analyze the workings of affect in the film. I argue that both Haraway’s essay and Schrader’s film propose similar strategies for survivalin the face of climate change. The article also includes a brief rejection of eco-theological perspectives that, at first glance, may seem relevant to the film. Instead, I propose a reading of First Reformed as a text that upholds collaboration with others as the most crucial strategy for survival in the face of climate change.