24 June, 2010 10:28

The Bergman Week on Fårö begins soon!

The 7th edition of the Bergman Week starts June 29 on Fårö.

The Masterclass with Liv Ullmann and screenings in Bergman’s private cinema on the island have generated great interest. But with one week to go until the Bergman Weeks kicks off there are still tickets available.

Among the new additions featured this year is the cooperation with The Bergman Estates, which has resulted in a number of joint events within the framework of the Bergman Week. The Bergman Lecture will be the first in a series, and Norwegian dramatist Jon Fosse will be the first to deliver a personal talk – on Bergman and on theatre, Liv Ullmann will deliver a Masterclass and screenings are arranged in Bergman’s private cinema for the first time since the director’s demise in 2007.

”The Arc of Light” is a professional ligthing workshop departing from Winter Light, in cooperation with Sven Nykvist Cinematography Institute. Also new for this year is actors Yvonne Lombard and Pia Johansson in ”A (Bus) Guide to the Bergman Galaxy”.

Also in the programme:

• Swedish premiere for Stig Björkman’s film ….but Film is My Mistress

• Talk with Gösta Ekman, screening of the rarely seen tv-series A Madman’s Manifesto, produced by Ingmar Bergman

• Paisley Livingston on Bergman as philosopher

• Leif Zern on evil as a theme in Bergman’s films

• Talk with director Johan Kling and PR guru Sven-Olof Bodenfors on Bergman’s commercials, plus screening of scenes from Kling’s upcoming film Trust Me

• Leif Furhammar on ”Bergman’s Beginnings” – a dozen of bergmanian film introuctions

• Oscar Award winning set designer Anna Asp on her work with Ingmar Bergman and on designing Fanny and Alexander

• Theatre & film: French theatre icon Ariane Mnouchkine,  screening of masterpiece Molière

•  Esther Rots, winner of The Ingmar Bergman International  Debut Award, introduces her film Can Go Through Skin

• GRANDE FINALE with open air rauk theatre – Bergman’s classical radio broadcast about the power of music in a picnic setting by the rauks on Fårö. Announcement of the winner of short film competition ”After Bergman”

Also:

• Bergman quiz with exclusive prizes – Durin the inauguration evening we repeat last year’s success!

• The exhibit ”Before Ingmar Became Bergman”, photo exhibit with new photos from Passion of Anna, sound artist Eva Erbenius’ installation ”A Regular Bergman, please!”

• And – naturally – the most popular event of the Bergman Week: the guided bus tours to some of the locales from the films Ingmar Bergman shot on the island – Persona, Through A Glass Darkly and Shame among them.

For complete program and other information, please see www.bergmanveckan.se.

For questions contact  jannike@bergmanveckan.se (+46 736 272118), david@bergmanveckan.se (+46 703 669783) or kuba@bergmanveckan.se (+46707 483713).

Bergman Week is arranged by the Bergman Center  Foundation on Fårö, The Bergman Estate, Film Gotland, Fårö Future, Göteborg International Film Festival and  Gotland University.