Fårö – The Cinematic Landscape of Ingmar Bergman
Ingmar Bergman and the guard Ott Olsson. One of the many encounters between Bergman and people of Fårö that this exhibit tells about.
In 1960, Ingmar Bergman came to Fårö for the first time, sent there by his producer who was hoping for a cheaper and more accessible location for Bergman’s new film than that picked by the director – The Orkney Islands. The film, dubbed ‘The Wallpaper’ in its planning stage, was to become Through a Glass Darkly, Bergman’s first Fårö film.
This exhibition brings the viewer in close contact with the powerful relationship that arose from early on between the renowned director and the people of Fårö.
Bergman enlisted the craftsmen of Fårö for the construction of sets and complicated camera rail systems for tracking shots on the stony beaches for the filming of Through a Glass Darkly and Persona, and for his war film Shame he recruited numerous Fårö residents to work as extras and help him set off fires and explosions in barns and deserted homesteads.
In the late 60s, Bergman shot an engaged Fårö Document wherein he presents a string of Fårö residents and voices his concern about the dismantling of services, schools and infrastructure that he, way ahead of the locals, saw on the horizon for the people of Fårö and those in sparsely populated areas in general.
The exhibition provides an opportunity for the visitor to see Ingmar Bergman and his work from the perspective of Fårö locals, and to behold the people of Fårö through Bergman’s eyes.
Through excerpts from notebooks and scripts, clips from ”behind the scenes” films and finished productions, and through the personal stories of selected Fårö residents, the exhibition offers a multifaceted insight into how Ingmar Bergman used and explored his cinematic landscape of Fårö – and the vital role that Fårö residents played in that process.
The exhibition is produced in a creative collaboration between The Bergman Center on Fårö and Fårö Local History association.
Curator Elisabet Edlund
Producer: David Kollnert
Design: Tomas Olsson
Work Group: Kerstin Blomberg, Maj-Gun Blomberg, Gunilla Brogren, Monica Kahlström,
Sneak preview from the Bergman safari!
Visit the locations and discover one of Sweden’s most famed artistic talents in one of Sweden’s most distinctive landscapes. Go on a film safari to Ingmar Bergman’s Fårö! See a sneak preview of the safari below and book your tickets here: www.bergmancenter.se/en/book-bergman-experience/activities
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Record attendance at the summer’s Bergman Week!
Sunday night, the eighth edition of the Bergman Week on Fårö wrapped with a sound installation on the theme of ”The Sounds of Bergman’s landscape” amongst the ”rauks” (huge lime stones) on the island. The arrangers were content with ticket sales having increased 20 percent from the previous year.
The Bergman Week, sometimes priding itself with being ”the world’s smallest film festival”, is eager to keep its intimate profile for guests and audiences alike, but the festival organizers are of course happy that more than 3100 tickets were sold.
Andrey Zvyagintsev, who recently won a Special Jury Prize in Cannes for his most recent feature Elena, said in a conversation that Ingmar Bergman had played a vital role in his life.
– I was seventeen when I saw Autumn Sonata in my hometown Novosibirsk. When I left the cinema, my shirt was completely soaked from tears, Zvyagintsev recalls. That film made me understand what it is possible to express through the film medium.
Veteran director István Szabó, who delivered this year’s ”Bergman Lecture”, was very moved by his meeting with Bergman’s Fårö, but most of all impressed by the audience.
– It is truly fantastic with all these interested and engaged people attending seminars and screenings! Where do they all come from?, he said in amazement.
The exhibition ”Fårö – Ingmar Bergman’s Filmic Landscape”, the first exhibition at the Bergman Center, has already attracted a large audience. With film clips, interviews and photographs it depicts the meeting between the internationally famed director and the locals, as well as the many-faceted dimensions of the landscape that Ingmar Bergman chose for seven of his films – including the two Fårö Documents. The exhibition runs through the summer at the Bergman Center.
– We already have lots of ideas for the Bergman Week 2012, says Jannike Åhlund, director of the event. We really hope that we can continue to have the old island school as our base and that we finally will manage to secure financing for the Bergman Center. The exhibition is just an example of a full range of public activities we envision for a fully developed Bergman Center on Fårö.
Fårö Document released on dvd for the first time!
Bergman’s documentary about the Baltic isle of Fårö is a time capsule of life on the tiny island at the end of the 1960s. It is a unique film featuring Fårö residents in the main roles and Ingmar Bergman as a socially committed reporter engaging in the fabric of a small rural society. Fårö Document, a field trip into Bergman territory with a political edge, is one of his lesser known films.
“Ever since my early childhood I have felt rootless wherever I’ve been. It is only since I came to Fårö that I have felt at home in the world.”
Ingmar Bergman
“Ingmar Bergman’s documentary about Fårö can definitely be regarded as one of his best films. A declaration of love for the island and its people.”
Dagens Nyheter, leading Swedish daily
The dvd comes with subtitles in English, German, French and Spanish.
© Leif Engberg
Theater during the Bergman Week!
Demon Theater of Los Angeles presents Ingmar Bergman’s THE DAY ENDS EARLY- a new English Language production of Bergman’s 1947 play, translated and directed by Demon Theater co-founder and Gotland native Anna Lerbom. The play is given twice during the Bergman Week, Thursday June 30 and Saturday July 2, 7 pm at Laterna Magica near Kutens Bensin. Tickets cost 60 SEK and can be bought at the Bergman Center. Welcome!
THE DAY ENDS EARLY centers around a group of Midsummer revelers that have been visited by a mysterious woman that warns them of their impending deaths, and the necessity of preparing for their journey beyond. Is the ominous warning valid, or merely the delusional ramblings of an unstable woman? How will the possibility of its truth effect those who have been warned and their loved ones?
Demon Theater was conceived on Fårö during Bergman Week 2007, when founders Anna Lerbom and Michael Moon attended a screening of THE DEVIL’S EYE. They had been looking for inspiration for a play to produce, and after the screening decided not only to translate and adapt THE DEVIL’S EYE, but to dedicate the entire focus of the company to celebrating the works of Ingmar Bergman. THE DEVIL’S EYE opened at the Arena Stage in Hollywood, CA in 2010, and later that year Demon Theater presented a ten week series of staged readings of new English translations of Bergman works at Actors Art Theatre in Los Angeles. The pieces presented were: THE CITY, an early radio play; THE RITE; RACHEL AND THE CINEMA DOORMAN; WINTER LIGHT; and THE DAY ENDS EARLY.
Demon Theater is excited and honored to bring their production of THE DAY ENDS EARLY to Fårö for the Bergman Week 2011.
CAST:
JENNY SJUBERG……………………..Diane Ayala Goldner
ROBERT VAN HIJN……………………………….Thor Edgell
VALBORG……………………………………Vanessa Hidalgo
OLE……………………………………………….Dave Buzzotta
PETER/ ASPIRANT JONSSON…………….Michael Moon
FINGER PELLA………………………………..Thomas Jester
OSCAR………………………………………Michael Coulombe
MRS. ÅSTRÖM………………………………….Jolene Adams
THE MODEL………………………………………Anna Lerbom
FIA CHARLOTTA/ BRITA/ THE GIRL………..Daria Balling
DR. VARN………………………………………..Evert Jansson
FREDELL………………………………………Thomas Jankert
More guests to the Bergman Week!
Andrei Zvyagintsev whose directorial debut The Return swept the film world off its feet is a guest at this year’s Bergman Week. The Bergman Lecture is held by Hungarian Academy Award winner István Szabó. In addition, we continue our popular screenings in Bergman’s private cinema. A previously never screened Bergman film and the rarely seen TV series Face to Face are also included in this summer’s programme.
Andrei Zvyagintsev’s The Return won a Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. ”A truly astonishing debut, a most enigmatic pictorial tale” was Ingmar Bergman’s opinion of the film. In Zvyagintsev’s talk on Fårö he will speak about his new film Elena, about the art of not revealing too much – as well as the influence that Bergman’s films has exerted on his own filmmaking.
With the films in ”the trilogy of evil” – all Academy Award nominated – István Szabó became a household name on the international film arena and regarded as one of the most important European filmmakers. Szabó is jointly invited by the Bergman Center and the Bergman Estate to deliver a Bergman Lecture, where he among other topics will speak about how he and Bergman founded the European Film Academy.
This year’s Master Class is held by cinematographer Manuel Alberto Claro whose latest film Melancholia by Lars von Trier is screened at the Bergman Week. He will talk about working with von Trier and about the particular challenges you face as an aesthetically aware cinematographer when you are instructed to create “ugly shots” – all the while making a beautiful rendition of the end of the world!
Bergman Exclusive! We present the film Karlebo for the first time ever, a film where Ingmar Bergman interviews his father-in-law – 85-year-old industrialist Selim Karlebo. Furthermore we’re screening the TV series Face to Face starring Liv Ullmann as a suicidal psychiatrist – only screened once since the premiere in 1976!
Swedish Television is producing a new film program, Bergman’s Video, taking as a point of departure Ingmar Bergman’s vast VHS collection. The team behind the program have chosen and will present three films from Bergman’s videotheque that will screen in Bergman’s own cinema.
See the entire programme at www.bergmancenter.se/en/bergman-week/programme
Tickets sales start on April 27 here!
Bergman’s Video: Withnail & I, July 1
Ingmar Bergman really made it his mission to keep tabs on what went on in the film world. Several of the cult classics of the 80s can be found on the director’s video shelves. Bruce Robinson’s classic Withnail & I, for instance. Maybe the author in Bergman appreciated the unimitable British twist to the dialogue, nodded approvingly to the depiction of class issues or simply enjoyed seeing the artist myth being rotated around its own axis, once more.
In English.
Swedish Television is producing a new film program, Bergman’s Video, taking as a point of departure Ingmar Bergman’s vast VHS collection with over 2000 titles. The team behind Bergman’s Video, Hynek Pallas, Fatima Varhos and Jane Magnusson have chosen and will present three films from Bergman’s videotheque that will feature in the TV series.
Music: Nocturnal Concert, July 1
As an extension of the conversation about Bach being a musical leit-motif of Bergman’s, this year’s Bergman Week features two concerts with the Goldberg Variations. A musical event on Fårö from a trio of young string musicians from the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, the Odense Symphony Orchestra and the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra – Emma de Frumerie, violin, Emilia Wareborn, viola, and Petra Lundin, cello.
Bergman’s Video: Halloween, July 1
John Carpenter’s classic horror tale was a staple on the video shelf of the late 70s teenage era – and a pleasant surprise on Ingmar Bergman’s! Just imagine: the director whose Virgin Spring once inspired Wes Craven in making Last House on the Left, spending a dark and foggy solitary autumn evening watching Halloween….!
In English.
Swedish Television is producing a new film program, Bergman’s Video, taking as a point of departure Ingmar Bergman’s vast VHS collection with over 2000 titles. The team behind Bergman’s Video, Hynek Pallas, Fatima Varhos and Jane Magnusson have chosen and will present three films from Bergman’s videotheque that will feature in the TV series.
Big Bergman Safari, July 1 (in English)
During the guided bus tour (which includes a lamb burger meal and something to drink), we visit locations from Persona, Through a Glass Darkly, A Passion, Shame and Scenes from a Marriage. Needless to say, we also constantly travel through both his Fårö Documents. During the tour we show a video with clips from the Fårö settings in the films. We also reenact a scene from Shame, where you might become one of the actors.
NOTE: Only the tour on Friday is in English.
The tour starts and ends at Fårö school. This is one of the most popular programme points of Bergman Week – make your reservation early!
Big Bergman Safari, June 30
During the guided bus tour (which includes a lamb burger meal and something to drink), we visit locations from Persona, Through a Glass Darkly, A Passion, Shame and Scenes from a Marriage. Needless to say, we also constantly travel through both his Fårö Documents. During the tour we show a video with clips from the Fårö settings in the films. We also reenact a scene from Shame, where you might become one of the actors.
NOTE: Only the tour on Friday is in English.
The tour starts and ends at Fårö school. This is one of the most popular programme points of Bergman Week – make your reservation early!
Bergman On Your Own, July 3
Visit Bergman Center on Fårö and enjoy a fascinating introduction to Ingmar Bergman and his relationship to Fårö. This initiated presentation is illustrated with clips from Bergman’s Fårö films. At the Centre you can also purchase a map for your own expedition to Bergman’s locations!
Daily between Monday June 27 and Sunday July 3. NOTE: In English only on Saturday and Sunday.
This event can also be booked during the rest of the summer! Please see Bergman On Your Own
Bergman On Your Own, July 2
Visit Bergman Center on Fårö and enjoy a fascinating introduction to Ingmar Bergman and his relationship to Fårö. This initiated presentation is illustrated with clips from Bergman’s Fårö films. At the Centre you can also purchase a map for your own expedition to Bergman’s locations!
Daily between Monday June 27 and Sunday July 3. NOTE: In English only on Saturday and Sunday.
This event can also be booked during the rest of the summer! Please see Bergman On Your Own
Bergman On Your Own, July 1
Visit Bergman Center on Fårö and enjoy a fascinating introduction to Ingmar Bergman and his relationship to Fårö. This initiated presentation is illustrated with clips from Bergman’s Fårö films. At the Centre you can also purchase a map for your own expedition to Bergman’s locations!
Daily between Monday June 27 and Sunday July 3. NOTE: In English only on Saturday and Sunday.
This event can also be booked during the rest of the summer! Please see Bergman On Your Own
Bergman On Your Own, June 30
Visit Bergman Center on Fårö and enjoy a fascinating introduction to Ingmar Bergman and his relationship to Fårö. This initiated presentation is illustrated with clips from Bergman’s Fårö films. At the Centre you can also purchase a map for your own expedition to Bergman’s locations!
Daily between Monday June 27 and Sunday July 3. NOTE: In English only on Saturday and Sunday.
This event can also be booked during the rest of the summer! Please see Bergman On Your Own
Bergman On Your Own, June 29
Visit Bergman Center on Fårö and enjoy a fascinating introduction to Ingmar Bergman and his relationship to Fårö. This initiated presentation is illustrated with clips from Bergman’s Fårö films. At the Centre you can also purchase a map for your own expedition to Bergman’s locations!
Daily between Monday June 27 and Sunday July 3. NOTE: In English only on Saturday and Sunday.
This event can also be booked during the rest of the summer! Please see Bergman On Your Own
Bergman On Your Own, June 28
Visit Bergman Center on Fårö and enjoy a fascinating introduction to Ingmar Bergman and his relationship to Fårö. This initiated presentation is illustrated with clips from Bergman’s Fårö films. At the Centre you can also purchase a map for your own expedition to Bergman’s locations!
Daily between Monday June 27 and Sunday July 3. NOTE: In English only on Saturday and Sunday.
This event can also be booked during the rest of the summer! Please see Bergman On Your Own
Guests at the Bergman Week 2011
Johan Cullberg, Inga Landgré, Lisa Langseth, Henning Mankell and Sara Stridsberg are among this year’s Swedish guests at the Bergman Week. The full programme will be presented on April 27. Ticket sales start the same day.
In Ingmar Bergman’s personal library, psychiatrist and writer Johan Cullberg found his own books ”Psychoses” and ”Dynamic Psychiatry”, both filled with notes of a highly personal nature. From these notes, and with the help of film clips, Cullberg reflects on the role of insanity in Bergman’s films.
Inga Landgré is the actress who played the lead role in Ingmar Bergman’s debut feature Crisis and also had a part in his penultimate film In the Presence of a Clown fifty years later. Meet her in a conversation about her long life in theatre and films.
Last autumn Lisa Langseth had great success with her directorial debut Pure. At the Bergman Week she participates in a talk about how to make a film and find alter-native means of production and distribution if you are not part of the establishment.
Next year Swedish Television will begin shooting the highly anticipated TV series about the life of Ingmar Bergman. The author Henning Mankell talks about the pitfalls and challenges during the course of the work. How do you portray a person who was constantly rewriting his own biography?
In Sara Stridsberg’s writings, young women travel through internal and external landscapes, often trying to escape conventions and demands, consistently individualistic and vulnerable. She will speak about strong, crazy and exposed female characters longing for freedom – in her own work and Ingmar Bergman’s.
The role of the landscape in Ingmar Bergman’s films is explored in both a lecture by professor Birgitta Steene and in an exhibit produced in collaboration with the Fårö Local Heritage Association.
The theme Family Snapshots consists of photos from Bergman’s own family albums – idyllic holiday scenes that contrast sharply with his own tales of a gloomy childhood. We have also assembled a section of rarely seen films with a family theme – including an interview with Selim Karlebo, Ingmar Bergman’s last father-in-law.
Welcome to the Bergman Week!
Jannike Åhlund, Paola Ciliberto, Elisabet Edlund, Monica Kahlström, Kerstin Kalström, David Kollnert, Isak Mozard and Kuba Rose
The Bergman Week is arranged in collaboration with The Bergman Estate, Gotland Film Commission, Göteborg International Film Festival and The Gotland University. The Bergman Week is financed with support from the Municipality of Gotland, Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation, The Swedish Film Institute and The Swedish Institute.
Closing Event: The Sounds of Bergman’s Landscape
The mournful sound of the foghorn, the stubborn tick-tock of the pendulum clock, Mozart capers intended to arouse profound joy – they are all sonic features of Bergman’s landscape. This landscape will be sampled among the rauks of Gamlehamn. In the last gasp of the Bergman Week, music ethnologist and professor Owe Ronström and radio producer and writer Eva Sjöstrand treat us to examples with comments and stories. The programme will close with an open air premiere of Owe Ronström’s Global Environmental Fanfare, composed for percussionists. Don’t miss this musical nature ”outstallation” by the rauks in the sunset!
The closing event is in Swedish (however with a lot of sounds regardless of language).
Coffee and a bite to eat can be purchased before the start of the event, and afterwards we treat you to a glass of wine and some snack food. Bring a blanket and something to sit on. In the event of rain, we will move to Bygdegården. If in doubt, call +46 498 22 68 68 after 12 Noon, July 3.
For the closing event, a bus will depart from Sudersand at 6.15 PM, arriving in Gamlehamn at 6.30 PM, by way of Fårö School (50 SEK).
Conversation: Andrei Zvyagintsev
Ingmar Bergman regarded it as ”a truly astonishing debut, a most enigmatic pictorial tale”. When Andrei Zvyagintsev appeared at the Venice Film Festival with his first feature The Return, the film world was swept off its feet – and the young director could return home with a Golden Lion for best film. Since, Zvyagintsev has also directed The Banishment with Swedish actress Maria Bonnevie in the lead role. In this talk he will speak about his new film Elena, about the art of not revealing too much – as well as the influence that Ingmar Bergman’s films has exerted on his own filmmaking.
The conversation is translated from Russian to English.
Conversation: Inga Landgré
”You will act in my first film, and in my last!” Inga was told by a young Ingmar. And that’s basically what happened for actress Inga Landgré who played the lead role in Ingmar Bergman’s debut feature Crisis and had a part in his penultimate film In the Presence of a Clown fifty years later. A conversation with Inga Landgré about her long life in theatre and films, her role as secret courier during the Greek junta rule in the 60s, a political commitment that ultimately lead her to another type of theatre than the one practised with Bergman or her former husband, comedian Nils Poppe.
The conversation is in Swedish.
Film: Fårö Document 1979
Farmer and fisher families speak of life on Fårö then and now, in a stand-alone sequel to Bergman’s Fårö Document from 1969.
Introduction and a follow-up Q&A session with Kerstin Blomberg and Gunilla Brogren. English subtitles.
Lecture: …and Nothing But the Truth?
Does it matter whether ”Laterna Magica” is based on biographical fact or sheer fantasies? In Bergman’s narrative life and art flows together. Literary scholar Emma Strindmar Norström studies Bergman’s ”auto-fiction”, talking about the strategies that he employed in the art of literary self portrait and myth-making.
The lecture is in English.
Film: Crisis
In Ingmar Bergman’s directorial debut Inga Landgré plays the main character Nelly, foster daughter of a piano teacher. Nelly is courted by the decadent lover (Stig Olin) of her biological mother. The director: ”I would be allowed to direct the film if I could manage to write a good script from this grandiose drivel. Wildly happy, I spent my nights writing the scenario, at breakneck speed. After presenting it, I was forced to do two or three rewrites before it was decided that I could make the film during the summer of 1945. Inspired by the success of Torment, I christened it Crisis. It turned out to be an apt title.”
Introduction by Inga Landgré. English subtitles.
Film: Persona
Actress Elisabet Vogler has withdrawn from the pressure of society by turning mute and immobile. On her doctor’s advice, she leaves the hospital for a lonely house by the sea. Along comes nurse Alma, who begins to tell the still mute Elisabet secrets from her past. Alma thinks she has found a soul mate, but realises that she has got the wrong impression when she secretly reads a letter from Elisabet to her doctor.
Introduction by Sara Stridsberg. English subtitles.
Presentation: Berlin-Fårö Roundtrip – Exhibiting Bergman
This spring’s large Bergman exhibition, “Ingmar Bergman: Truth and Lies” at the Deutsche Kinemathek in Berlin, was not only the most comprehensive to date on Ingmar Bergman’s life and work, but also a public success. While waiting for a Swedish institution to follow suit and book the exhibition about “one of the most influential persons in film history”, we offer an opportunity to listen to the curators, Nils Warnecke and Kristina Jaspers, who talk about the years of preparation and show images from the exhibit, re-enacting it on Fårö.
The presentation is in English.
Conversation: Sara Stridsberg
Ten years ago Sara Stridsberg interviewed fourteen young women from Fårö and Fårösund about their everyday lives and dreams. After this document she has written three novels and a number of plays and is considered one of Sweden’s most interesting writers. In her writings, the young women are still travelling through internal and external landscapes, often trying to escape conventions and demands, consistently individualistic and vulnerable. A conversation about strong, crazy and exposed female characters longing for freedom – in the works of Sara Stridsberg and Ingmar Bergman. This is where Sister Alma and Mrs Vogler meet Happy Sally and Valerie Solanas.
The conversation is in Swedish.
Film: Distant Land
In a follow-up to previous years’ work in progress, we now screen the finished film! Främmande land (Distant Land) is shot on Fårö, with numerous locals involved in the production, and deals with how two women have to confront momentous choices during their stay on the island. This feature film debut is directed by Anders Hazelius and Niklas Holmgren.
SHORTFILM: Not Panic (2010) A short film shot on Fårö and nominated to a Guldbagge Award, directed by Elisabeth Marjanovic Cronvall.
English subtitles.
Lecture: The Filmic Landscape of Fårö
When Ingmar Bergman first encountered Fårö in the early 1960’s, a representational Bergman landscape had already begun to take shape in his filmmaking, where specific physical surroundings functioned as both topographical setting and metaphor in films that became known for their psychological brooding and existential questioning. When Bergman later met Fårö’s weather-beaten scenery, it was like a mental déjà-vu, a confirmation of something he had already experienced and recreated on the screen. But in meeting Fårö, Bergman’s landscape assumed a new filmic dimension. In this lecture professor emerita Birgitta Steene traces the presence of what might be called a paradigmatic Fårö landscape in Bergman’s filmmaking.
The lecture is in English.
Don’t miss the exhibit on the same theme in the Bergman Center!
Film: The Return
In the remote Russian wilderness, two brothers face a range of new, conflicting emotions when their father – a man they only know through a single photograph – resurfaces after twelve years of absence. Initially, he seems to be compensating his sons for his long abscence, but it turns out that he has an agenda of his own. Starring Ivan Dobronravov, Vladimir Garin, Konstatin Lavronenko and Natalia Vdovina.
Introduction by Andrei Zvyagintsev. Swedish subtitles.
Film: The Silence
Two sisters (Gunnel Lindblom and Ingrid Thulin) and a boy in a hotel room in a faraway country. Johan, the boy, explores the frightening and labyrinthine hotel while his aunt lies dying and his mother seeks refuge in an erotic escapade. A drama about the lack of love and language that caused quite a stir in its day. One of Bergman’s most widely seen films.
Introduction by Marilyn Johns Blackwell. English subtitles.
Conversation: Henning Mankell
Author Henning Mankell has written a comprehensive screenplay about the life of Ingmar Bergman. The TV series, with a planned running time of four hours, is a major production from Swedish Television with shooting due to begin next year. Henning Mankell talks about the pitfalls and challenges during the course of the work. How do you portray a person who was constantly rewriting his own biography? What aspects should you focus on when you are dealing with an artistic achievement of monumental scope and a family life comprising several women and many children? How is the image of Bergman shaped by the fact that the author is himself part of this expansive family?
The conversation is in Swedish.
Film: Rabies
A number of ”scenes from human existence” was one of the first TV theatre productions from Swedish Television. In the opening scene a young country girl played by Gunnel Lindblom is humiliated by her master and lover. This sets in motion a spiral of further degradation where Bergman explores the basest aspects of mankind and poses the question: ”Are life’s miseries eased by the lamentations of others?” Featuring, among others: Gunnel Lindblom, Bibi Andersson and Max von Sydow – all very young!
Introduction by Martin Dyfverman. No subtitles.
Lecture: Bergman – A TV-crazed Pioneer
Ingmar Bergman wasn’t just an innovator in filmmaking, but a pioneer in the newborn TV-medium, directing the first TV theatre productions. He became obsessed with TV, the medium that represented ”something completely new; not film, not radio and not theatre”. TV theatre offered a new set of narrative and technical possibilities – but perhaps more importantly: a new audience. Radio journalist Martin Dyfverman talks about how TV theatre, through directors such as Bergman, Jan Molander and Bengt Lagerkvist, evolved from a practice range into a successful everyman’s theatre where each performance was viewed by millions.
The lecture is in Swedish.
Lecture: Body Language
Throughout his career, Ingmar Bergman’s films focused on the body and sexuality. Professor Marilyn Johns Blackwell starts out from Bergman’s often entertaining comments about his own bodily experiences and points at different examples of symbolic depictions of the body, both explicit and implicit. In Bergman’s films our perception of the body and the very awareness of being inside a body is something that inevitably affects our outlook on the world.
The lecture is in English.
Award Ceremony and Party at Kuten
Mingle with the next generation of filmmakers at an all night event at Kutens Bensin!
Erika och Sally – Work-in-progress. Last year, director Hanna Andersson won the Bergman Week’s screenplay award ”After Bergman” with her film Erika och Sally, about two sisters’ relationship with each other and their alcoholic mother. Hanna Andersson will show excerpts from her next film.
Bergman quiz with quiz master Jan Göransson, Head of Press at the Swedish Film Institute. Excellent prizes!
And the winner is…. Award ceremony for the 2011 winner of the short film idea award ”After Bergman”. Marit Kapla from The Göteborg International Film Festival plays her favourite records!
Free entrance!
No booking needed, just go there!
Film: The Best Swedish Shorts
The best Swedish short films, selected and presented by Göteborg International Film Festival. The screening of the five films will be introduced by the festival’s artistic director Marit Kapla.
FUNGUS by Charlotta Miller
Paralyzed by a broken heart and plagued by itching nethers, Katrin lets her flat and life fall into decay. Chaotic, fun and powerful about what happens when everyone talks but no one listens.
THE UNRULY by Fanni Metelius
About friendship and obligations, about betrayal and norms, in a sensitive and nostalgic portrayal of youth, transporting you back to the late 1990s.
LATE ON EARTH by John Skoog
A girl is having a smoke. A guy is out walking too many dogs. A bunch of girls are playing football near a canyon. The magnicificent cinematography lends a feeling that something greater than ourselves is at hand.
LAS PALMAS by Johannes Nyholm
Marja is a middle-aged charter tourist from Sweden vacationing in the sun. Marja is played by a one-year-old and the supporting cast consists of marionettes. Madly funny, according to 8 million Youtube visitors, watch the trailer here. Now see the entire film at the Bergman Week!
THE BIG SCENE by Tova Mozard
Three women representing different generations are placed on the stage of The Royal Dramatic Theatre. They have all lost their husbands and fathers. About grief and the ability to shut it off or live with it.
English subtitles.
Bergman’s Video: Withnail & I, June 30
Ingmar Bergman really made it his mission to keep tabs on what went on in the film world. Several of the cult classics of the 80s can be found on the director’s video shelves. Bruce Robinson’s classic Withnail & I, for instance. Maybe the author in Bergman appreciated the unimitable British twist to the dialogue, nodded approvingly to the depiction of class issues or simply enjoyed seeing the artist myth being rotated around its own axis, once more.
In English.
Swedish Television is producing a new film program, Bergman’s Video, taking as a point of departure Ingmar Bergman’s vast VHS collection with over 2000 titles. The team behind Bergman’s Video, Hynek Pallas, Fatima Varhos and Jane Magnusson have chosen and will present three films from Bergman’s videotheque that will feature in the TV series.
Film: Face to Face
A ”psychological thriller about the breakdown and dreams of a human being”, according to its creator. The film, which was produced as a TV series, deals with a psychiatrist Jenny (Liv Ullmann) driven by childhood memories towards the edge of insanity. She is cared for by Tomas Jacobi (Erland Josephson), the half brother of one of Jenny’s long-time patients.
Introduction by Johan Cullberg. No subtitles.
Master Class: Manuel Alberto Claro
Lars von Trier’s latest film Melancholia, the follow-up to Antichrist, is a science fiction film starring, among others, Alexander and Stellan Skarsgård. The cinematographer Manuel Alberto Claro, who has previously worked with Nordic directors such as Christoffer Boe, Erik Gandini and Dagur Kári, will talk about working with von Trier and about the particular challenges you face as an aesthetically aware cinematographer when you are instructed to create “ugly shots” while making a beautiful rendition of the end of the world.
The Master Class is in English.
Conversation: New Ideas, New Paths, New Tools
New, talented filmmakers challenge the traditional methods, eschew genre conventions and enrich film with approaches and experiences from the world of art and theatre. Hynek Pallas talks with three filmmakers about how to make a film and find alternative means of production and distribution if you are not part of the establishment. With Lisa Langseth, Tova Mozard and Manuel Alberto Claro.
The talk is in English.
Music: Nocturnal Concert, June 29
As an extension of the conversation about Bach being a musical leit-motif of Bergman’s, this year’s Bergman Week features two concerts with the Goldberg Variations. A musical event on Fårö from a trio of young string musicians from the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, the Odense Symphony Orchestra and the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra – Emma de Frumerie, violin, Emilia Wareborn, viola, and Petra Lundin, cello.
Film: Mephisto
István Szabó’s Academy Award winning film, based on a novel by Klaus Mann, is the story of German actor Heinrich Höpfken (actually Gustaf Gründgens, Mann’s brother-in-law), who finds unexpected success and mixed blessings in the popularity of his performance in a Faustian play as the Nazis take power in pre-WWII Germany. As his associates and friends flee or are ground under by the Nazi terror, the popularity of his character supercedes his own existence until he finds that his best performance is keeping up appearances for his Nazi patrons.
Introduction by István Szabó. English subtitles.
Bergman’s Video: Halloween, June 29
John Carpenter’s classic horror tale was a staple on the video shelf of the late 70s teenage era – and a pleasant surprise on Ingmar Bergman’s! Just imagine: the director whose Virgin Spring once inspired Wes Craven in making Last House on the Left, spending a dark and foggy solitary autumn evening watching Halloween….!
In English.
Swedish Television is producing a new film program, Bergman’s Video, taking as a point of departure Ingmar Bergman’s vast VHS collection with over 2000 titles. The team behind Bergman’s Video, Hynek Pallas, Fatima Varhos and Jane Magnusson have chosen and will present three films from Bergman’s videotheque that will feature in the TV series.
Film: Blue Valentine
Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling play a married couple struggling with their relationship. During a weekend they try to solve their problems. Earlier this year director Derek Cianfrance won The Ingmar Bergman International Debut Award at the Göteborg International Film Festival.
Introduction by Marit Kapla.
In English.
Film: Family Snapshots
A number of short films – all family related. In Karlebo by Peder Langenskiöld, Bergman interviews his father-in-law Selim Karlebo. Karins ansikte (Karin’s face) is a tender portrait of his mother. Stimulantia/Daniel is a short film about his newly born son and Dåså (Well, then) is a short film made for television from a script written by Bergman and his daughter Maria von Rosen, directed by Richard Looft. Introduction by Lena Bergman who will talk about the portrait of her grandmother in Karins ansikte.
No subtitles.
Big Bergman Safari, June 29
During the guided bus tour (which includes a lamb burger meal and something to drink), we visit locations from Persona, Through a Glass Darkly, A Passion, Shame and Scenes from a Marriage. Needless to say, we also constantly travel through both his Fårö Documents. During the tour we show a video with clips from the Fårö settings in the films. We also reenact a scene from Shame, where you might become one of the actors.
NOTE: Only the tour on Friday is in English.
The tour starts and ends at Fårö school. This is one of the most popular programme points of Bergman Week – make your reservation early!
Film: Melancholia
Melancholia, the sci-fi-tinged disaster film from Lars von Trier, is described by its director as a “beautiful film about the end of the world”. The visual beauty is contributed in no small part by cinematographer Manuel Alberto Claro. The film deals with the arrival of an alien planet, Melancholia, headed for Earth on a collision course as two sisters gather for a family wedding. The film stars Kirsten Dunst, Kiefer Sutherland and Charlotte Gainsbourg as well as Alexander Skarsgård, Stellan Skarsgård, John Hurt, and Charlotte Rampling.
Introduction by Manuel Alberto Claro.
Music: Sarabandes and Goldberg Variations
The music of Bach was a constant companion of Bergman’s throughout his career – from his early film Prison to his last one, Saraband. Bergman was particularly fond of the sarabandes – originally a dance symbolising suppressed passion, longing and melancholy – both in the cello suites and the Goldberg Variations. Bengt Lundin, Professor of Music Theory, talks about Johann Sebastian Bach’s music, focusing on these two pieces that became Bergman’s leit-motifs. Cellist Petra Lundin provides musical illustrations.
In Swedish.
Bergman’s Video: The Razor’s Edge, June 30
Bill Murray’s first attempt at serious character acting was butchered by the critics. Later in his career Murray had the opportunity to show off some serious talent, not least in Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation, and in Wes Anderson’s films. Ingmar Bergman occasionally cast a comedy actor in a serious role, thus acknowledging the importance of being entertaining in a serious context.
Swedish Television is producing a new film program, Bergman’s Video, taking as a point of departure Ingmar Bergman’s vast VHS collection with over 2000 titles. The team behind Bergman’s Video, Hynek Pallas, Fatima Varhos and Jane Magnusson have chosen and will present three films from Bergman’s videotheque that will feature in the TV series.
Bergman’s Video: The Razor’s Edge, June 29
Bill Murray’s first attempt at serious character acting was butchered by the critics. Later in his career Murray had the opportunity to show off some serious talent, not least in Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation, and in Wes Anderson’s films. Ingmar Bergman occasionally cast a comedy actor in a serious role, thus acknowledging the importance of being entertaining in a serious context.
Swedish Television is producing a new film program, Bergman’s Video, taking as a point of departure Ingmar Bergman’s vast VHS collection with over 2000 titles. The team behind Bergman’s Video, Hynek Pallas, Fatima Varhos and Jane Magnusson have chosen and will present three films from Bergman’s videotheque that will feature in the TV series.
Bergman Lecture: István Szabó
With the films in ”a trilogy of evil” – all Academy Award nominated and with the luminous Klaus Maria Brandauer in the lead role – István Szabó became a household name on the international film arena and regarded as one of the most important European filmmakers. Szabó is jointly invited by the Bergman Center and the Bergman Estate to deliver a Bergman Lecture. He has directed more than 30 feature films, among them the Academy Award winner Mephisto. During the 60’s and 70’s Szabó directed films in his native Hungary, the following decade was spent directing the films in the German ”trilogy of evil”, followed by a string of English-language films – Taking Sides, Sunshine and Being Julia among them. Regardless of language, István Szabó has always made his films in a specific political and historical context. In 1988, he and Ingmar Bergman were two of the founding fathers of the European Film Academy. In his Bergman Lecture, István Szabó will talk about Ingmar Bergman’s dream of a European ”film club” which could really make a difference for European films by assembling the best and the brightest in the trade – and what remains of this dream, some twenty years later.
The lecture is in English.
Lecture: A Spiritual Matter – A Posthumous Dialogue
What exactly did psychosis represent in Ingmar Bergman’s fictitious world? In Bergman’s personal library, psychiatrist and writer Johan Cullberg has found his own books ”Psychoses” and ”Dynamic Psychiatry”, both filled with notes of a highly personal nature as well as professional observations. From these notes, and with the help of film clips, Cullberg reflects on the role of insanity in Ingmar Bergman’s films.
The lecture is in Swedish.
Opening party: Second seating
On the opening night you can enjoy a great BBQ buffet and mingle with the rest of the guests of the Bergman Week, at Lauters in the loveliest of Fårö settings overlooking the sea! Bobby Mull will perform their ”near-death-influenced pop” plus a future hit with a Bergman twist. Welcome!
BBQ buffet, including an apéritif, is SEK 280 (veg. alt. available). Second seating is 8 PM – 10 PM. Bar is open 6 PM – 1 AM.
Opening party: First seating
On the opening night you can enjoy a great BBQ buffet and mingle with the rest of the guests of the Bergman Week, at Lauters in the loveliest of Fårö settings overlooking the sea! Bobby Mull will perform their ”near-death-influenced pop” plus a future hit with a Bergman twist. Welcome!
BBQ buffet, including an apéritif, is SEK 280 (veg. alt. available). First seating is 6 PM – 7.30 PM. Bar is open 6 PM – 1 AM.
Film: Fårö Document (1969)
In accordance with tradition, we show both of Ingmar Bergman’s Fårö documentaries every Bergman Week – a filmic staple that has become two permanent fixtures in the programme. In the first documentary from the island, rural problems and births are discussed when Fårö residents, natives as well as recent arrivals, are interviewed.
Introduction and a follow-up Q&A session with Kerstin Blomberg and Gunilla Brogren.
An English text summary is available.
Conversation: Everybody’s Bergman
How can Bergman’s cultural heritage be conveyed to today’s youth and children? Over the past year, teachers and students in Gotland have been involved in the project ”Everybody’s Bergman”. Through workshops and productions pupils from the kindergarten level up to upper secondary school have been given an opportunity to connect with Bergman’s art. Bergman, the inspiring pedagogue, has been the key concept in this exciting project. The students that have taken part in the project present some of their films and talk about the work process. The audience is invited to a discussion about making Bergman accessible to new generations. With teachers Anna Stövring-Nielsen, Hanna Sällström-Jonasson, Niklas Westergren and Monika Wigren and students.
Free entrance!
Bergman On Your Own, June 27
Visit Bergman Center on Fårö and enjoy a fascinating introduction to Ingmar Bergman and his relationship to Fårö. This initiated presentation is illustrated with clips from Bergman’s Fårö films. At the Centre you can also purchase a map for your own expedition to Bergman’s locations!
Daily between Monday June 27 and Sunday July 3. NOTE: In English only on Saturday and Sunday.
This event can also be booked during the rest of the summer! Please see Bergman On Your Own
Opening Ceremony Bergman Week 2011
Pianist Roland Pöntinen performs classical music from Ingmar Bergman’s films – Chopin, Schubert and Schumann. A trio of string musicians from the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, the Odense Symphony Orchestra and the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra – Emma de Frumerie, violin, Emilia Wareborn, viola, and Petra Lundin, cello – will perform some of Bach’s Goldberg Variations. The Bergman Week will be officially inaugurated by Bengt Toll, CEO of the Swedish Film Institute.
Pictures from the Bergman Week
Ariane Mnouchkine outside Bergman
Visit our picture archive and re-experience this summer’s Bergman Week. In short you will also find moving pictures and sound from fascinating talks and lectures from the history of the Bergman Week.
Liv Ullmann
Liv Ullmann on Ingmar Bergman’s Face To Face from Bergmancenter on Vimeo.
Liv Ullmann at the Bergman Week 2010, speaking about the filming of Face To Face with Ingmar Bergman. She talks about the relationship between a director and his actors, and specifically the scene when her character commits suicide in the film.
Liv Ullmann at the Bergman Week 2010!
Liv Ullmann on Ingmar Bergman’s Face To Face from Bergmancenter on Vimeo.
Liv Ullmann at the Bergman Week 2010, speaking about the filming of Face To Face with Ingmar Bergman. She talks about the relationship between a director and his actors, and specifically the scene when her character commits suicide in the film.
The Bergman Center in Die Zeit!
Die Zeit, Tuesday February 10, an article is published owing to the biggest exhibition about Ingmar Bergman’s work and life so far, “Von Lüge und Wahrheit” in Berlin at the Deutsche Kinemathek. The exhibition is accompanied by 93 screenings of Bergman’s films as well as several seminars during the film festival in Berlin.
The exhibition lasts until May. For more information, see www.filmmuseum-berlin.de.
Read the whole article here (in German): Die Zeit 10 feb 2011
Discover Bergman’s Fårö – Take a trip through Sweden’s most beautiful film landscape
Visit the locations and discover one of Sweden’s most famed artistic talents in one of Sweden’s most distinctive landscapes. Go on a film safari to Ingmar Bergman’s Fårö!
Inspiration and tranquillity and the place that has come to be most strongly associated with his oeuvre. He lived and worked here for nearly 40 years and this is where he made some of his best known films. In films such as Through a Glass Darkly, Persona, Scenes from a Marriage and Shame he has used the barren landscape of Fårö as middle-class holiday resort, as a refuge, as a war zone and as a backdrop for marital strife. Furthermore his documentaries Fårödokument (1969) and Fårödokument 1979 show a strong commitment to the people of Fårö and the future of the island.
Location Fårö
The Big Bergman Safari
Photo: Peter Assar Monsen
In the course of a half-day’s excursion you’ll visit several locations from the films Persona, Through a Glass Darkly and Scenes from a Marriage. Anecdotes and stories from the film set and from Bergman’s life on Fårö are supplemented with clips from the places concerned. You will have a chance to act on location in a Bergman film when we reconstruct a scene from Shame.
The bus tour is a unique way of experiencing Fårö from east to west coast and takes you to places that are difficult to discover on your own. Two knowledgeable guides will pilot you through the landscape of Fårö and the world of film. An eventful tour for film enthusiasts and nature lovers alike! Grilled lamb burgers will be served by the spectacular ”raukar” (limestone stacks).
Photo: Peter Assar Monsen
Time: 3 1/2 hours.
Starting from the Bergman center on Fårö.
Price: 495 SEK per person
The Small Bergman Safari
A smaller scale bus tour. We travel through the landscape of the Fårö documentaries, visit selected locations, stop at Ingmar’s own cinema at Dämba, see clips of the places concerned and then relax with a picnic basket in a classic Fårö setting beside the mighty ”raukar” of Langhammar. There will be a guide on the tour to give insights into the world of Bergman’s films and life on Fårö.
Time: 2 hours.
Starting from the Bergman Center on Fårö
Price: 295 SEK per person
Rent a Bergman guide
Bring a Bergman guide with you on your Fårö tour! One of the Bergman Center’s expert guides will pilot you to a selection of Ingmar Bergman’s locations. The Fårö trip begins or ends at the Bergman Center with a viewing of film clips from the places visited. Coffee or a picnic basket can be ordered. The guided tour can be customised to suit your particular wishes.
Time: 2 hours.
Starting from the Bergman center on Fårö
Price: 1500 SEK + VAT
Bergman on your own
Visit the Bergman Center on Fårö and listen to an exciting introduction to Ingmar Bergman and his relationship with Fårö. The elaborate story is illustrated by clips from Bergman’s Fårö films. Coffee and a map for your own expeditions to Bergman locations are included!
Time: 45 min. At the Bergman center on Fårö.
Price: 145 SEK per person
If you are interested in next year’s Bergman Adventures please contact info@bergmancenter.se
Photo: David Kollnert
New members of the board
Lena Bergman and Pär Nuder are new members of the board of the Fårö Bergman Center Foundation.
Lena Bergman has worked with reviewing and managing projects regarding children at the National Board of Health and Welfare and the National Institute of Public Health. She has also studied literature and film at the university. As a child she was cast in Wild Strawberries. Lena Bergman has spent many summers on Fårö – and many hours in her father’s cinema, where they have seen films together.
Pär Nuder was a member of the Swedish parliament 1994-2009. Nuder was first Minister of Coordination and then appointed Minister of Finance in 2004. He has also been adjunct Minister of Culture (2004) but has now resigned from his political assignments. Pär Nuder is a consultant in former United States Secretary of State Madeleine Albright’s consulting firm, Albright Stonebridge Group. He has been fascinated by Ingmar Bergman ever since he saw The Seventh Seal as a young boy.
John Landis
John Landis from Bergmancenter on Vimeo.
Bergman Center intervjus american director John Landis about Ingmar Bergman at Venice International Film Festival.
Jean-Marc Barr
Jean-Marc Barr from Bergmancenter on Vimeo.
French actor Jean-Marc Barr talks about his inspiration from Ingmar Bergman at Venice International Film Festival.
Master class
Photo: Peter Assar Monsen
The Masterclass is arranged in collaboration with the regional network of Swedish Film Resource Centers.
Debut during Fårö All Night
”My political commitment is solely focused on Fårö. Ever since my childhood days, I have felt rootless. Wherever I’ve been. It is only since I came to Fårö in 1960 that I have felt at home in the world. This is where I have my roots,where I feel right at home. When I have finished my activities, I shall refrain from the world for good and just become an old local man – any old local man.” (Ingmar Bergman in an interview 1979, during his German ”exile”.)
The Bergman Center on Fårö participated for the first time in the annual and very popular event Fårö All Night – during which some 44 different activities on the island were on offer to the visitors, busily driving from on to another. This particular day, September 18, was the day preceding the national elections in Sweden. Escaping persistent rain, many visitors found their way to the old school where the Bergman Center had arranged screenings, exhibits and a bus tour.
Since it is 50 years since Ingmar Bergman first came to Fårö, we had put together a photo exhibit documenting the seven films Ingmar Bergman shot on the island: Through A Glass Darkly (1961), Persona (1965), The Shame (1968), A Passion (1969), Scenes From A Marriage (1973) and the two Fårö Documents (1969 + 1979).
Both of the Fårö Documents screened in the digital cinema in the Center – formerly the physical education hall – and they drew a full house.
During the afternoon some 50 visitors took a bus tour to some of the locales of the films Bergman shot on Fårö. Later that same night, Smiles of a Summer Night at the diminutive Sudersand Cinema offered a contrasting escape from the icy rain.
In cooperation with the Bergman Estate, Bergman’s personal cinema at Dämba was open during Fårö All Night. Here, Stig Björkman’s film Images From the Playground, screened to an exclusive audience of 14 at a time.
To us, Fårö All Night, was somewhat of a showcase of what is to meet the future visitor of the Bergman Center. We were also happy to share the facilities in the school during the event with the Fårö Association for Local Culture.
In-depth University Course
Margarethe von Trotta at the Bergman Week 2008
Photo: Noomi Riedel
In a collaboration with Bergman Center, Gotland University is developing yet another course, entitled “Ingmar Bergman’s cinematic landscapes”. The focus lies on how Bergman uses and portrays external and internal landscapes in his films and weaves the landscape into the plot and character development. The thematic elements will include:
– The city and the countryside
– Borderlands
– The landscape of dreams
– The landscape of childhood
The course will start and close with the students spending a weekend at Bergman Center on Fårö for lectures and seminars. The rest of the course will be carried out online. The quarter-time course spans 20 weeks, from October to March.
CPD for teachers
Bergman Week, the university course and our bus tours will be complemented with an array of continuing professional development courses for teachers and educational opportunities for grade school pupils and upper secondary school students, about Bergman’s artistic production, focusing on film and television.
Bergman Center will offer a professional development course for grade school and upper secondary school teachers, aimed at providing further insight into Bergman’s art. The course will be developed with the participation and advice of Film på Gotland. The content will be both theoretical and practical, spanning for example:
– Swedish fim history throughout Bergman’s 60-year era of production.
– Bergman as a young man
– Bergman’s work processes
– Film workshop in the spirit of Bergman
– Bergman’s documentaries about Fårö, how would they look if made today?
The course is offerered as part of a package including travel, meals and accomodation on Fårö.
The Big Bergman Safari
Photo: Peter Assar Monsen
In the course of a half-day’s excursion you’ll visit several locations from the films Persona, Through a Glass Darkly and Scenes from a Marriage. Anecdotes and stories from the film set and from Bergman’s life on Fårö are supplemented with clips from the places concerned. You will have a chance to act on location in a Bergman film when we reconstruct a scene from Shame.
The bus tour is a unique way of experiencing Fårö from east to west coast and takes you to places that are difficult to discover on your own. Two knowledgeable guides will pilot you through the landscape of Fårö and the world of film. An eventful tour for film enthusiasts and nature lovers alike! Grilled lamb burgers will be served by the spectacular ”raukar” (limestone stacks).
Reconstruction of a scene from Shame
Photo: Jannike Åhlund
The Bergman Safari
We travel through the landscape of the Fårö documentaries, visit selected locations, stop at Ingmar’s own cinema at Dämba, see clips of the places concerned and then relax with a coffee break in a classic Fårö setting beside the mighty limestones (rauks) at Langhammars. There will be guides on the tour to give insights into the world of Bergman’s films and life on Fårö.
Price: 329 SEK per person
If you are a group and would like to book a Bergman Safari, please contact Monica Kahlström: phone +46 498 22 68 68 or e-mail info@bergmancenter.se.
Rent a Bergman guide
Bring a Bergman guide with you on your Fårö tour! One of the Bergman Center’s expert guides will pilot you to a selection of Ingmar Bergman’s locations. The Fårö trip begins or ends at the Bergman Center with a viewing of film clips from the places visited. Coffee or a picnic basket can be ordered. The guided tour can be customised to suit your particular wishes.
Guides are available throughout July and August 2011
Price: SEK 1875
Time: 2 hours. Starting from the Bergman center on Fårö
The beach from Shame
Photo: Paola Ciliberto
Bergman On Your Own
Visit the Bergman Center on Fårö and listen to an exciting introduction to Ingmar Bergman and his relationship with Fårö. The elaborate story is illustrated by clips from Bergman’s Fårö films. A map for your own expeditions to Bergman locations can be bought at the center.
Price: 129 SEK per person
If you would like to book Bergman On Your Own, please contact Monica Kahlström at the Bergman Center three days in advance: phone +46 498 22 68 68 or e-mail info@bergmancenter.se.
Esther Rots
Photo: Peter Assar Monsen
Dutch film maker Esther Rots won the 2010 edition of The Ingmar Bergman International Debut Award at the Göteborg Int Film Festival with her film Can Go Through Skin. The price includes a trip to Bergman Week where we see her posing by an exhibition of old refrigerators at Kuten.
Ariane Mnouchkine
Photo: Peter Assar Monsen
Ariane Mnouchkine, legendary leader of Théâtre du Soleil, visited Bergman Week 2010 together with one of the stars of the ensemble Juliana Carneiro da Cunha. Here we see her outside Bergman’s house at Hammars.
Yvonne & Pia
Photo: Peter Assar Monsen
Renowned Swedish actor’s Yvonne Lombard and Pia Johansson took the audience for a tour to the Bergman Galaxy by the Fårö beach.
Jon Fosse
Photo: Peter Assar Monsen
Jon Fosse was in collaboration with the Bergman Estate invited to hold a so called Bergman Lecture, a new yearly tradition. Here we see him outside Bergman’s writer’s cottage on Fårö.
Johan Kling
Photo: Peter Assar Monsen
Swedish director Johan Kling outside Sudersand’s Cinema where he talked about his admiration for Bergman and that he saw Smiles of a Summer Night at least 50 times when he was making his latest film Puss.
Liv Ullmann
Photo: Peter Assar Monsen
Actress and director Liv Ullmann acted in ten of Bergman’s films – the collaboration starting with Persona. For Bergman Week 2010 Liv once again visited Fårö and held a much appreciated masterclass for young aspiring film makers.
Screening in Bergman’s Cinema
At 3 PM every summer afternoon, Ingmar Bergman watched a movie in his private cinema in Dämba, often joined by his family. For Bergman Week 2010 we in collaboration with The Bergman Estate asked Lena, Ingmar and Daniel Bergman to select one film each that they watched together with their father in the cinema. Here you can see the anticipation before Lena’s choice He Who Gets Slapped by Victor Sjöström. Worth noting is the empty chair, guess who’s.
Photo: Peter Assar Monsen
Discover Fårö
Destinationgotland.se Here you can, among many other things, book your ferry tickets.
Gotland.info Gotlands Tourist Agency
Gotland.net Information portal about Gotland
Travel Gate Sweden Portal about visiting Sweden in English
Bergman at Fårö Night!
On September 18 Bergman Center will hit it big at Fårö Culture Night. Go on a film safari to Ingmar Bergman’s Fårö, see film in his private cinema and much more!
Bergman Center / Fårö Museum
In collaboration with Fårö Cultural History Association we present two photo exhibits with behinds scene photage from Bergman’s Fårö films and pictures of Fårö residents in the old days. See also Before Ingmar was Bergman, an exhibition about the young Bergman. Through images and words, we get a picture of Ingmar Bergman’s youth and first steps as an artist.
Bergman Center Cinema
De två Fårödokumenten om livet på ön var Ingmar Bergmans enda dokumentärfilmer.
Han gjorde filmerna av kärlek till ön och dess befolkning och tillägnade dem Fåröborna.
19.30 Fårödokument 69 (60 min)
21.00 Fårödokument 79 (100 min)
Short introduction by Majvor Östergren at Fårö Cultural History Association.
Price: 40 kr – book here
Photo: Peter Assar Monsen
Bergman Safari: Location Fårö – The Small Tour
A smaller scale bus tour. We travel through the landscape of the Fårö documentaries, visit selected locations, stop at Fårö Church, see clips of the places concerned and then relax with a picnic basket in a classic Fårö setting beside the mighty ”raukar” of Langhammar. There will be a guide on the tour to give insights into the world of Bergman’s films and life on Fårö.
Time: 2 hours. Starting from the Bergman Center on Fårö
Price: 295 kr – book here
Photo: Peter Assar Monsen
Bergman’s Cinema at Dämba
Images from the Playground (30 min) by Stig Björkman
Bergman’s own behind the scenes photos from different shootings.
Interviews with Harriet Andersson & Bibi Andersson.
Short introduction by Jannike Åhlund, general manager at The Bergman Estate.
Price 100kr – book here
Photo: Paola Ciliberto
Sudersandsbion
Smiles of a Summer Night (108 min)
Ingmar Bergman’s comedy about love troubles in a small town setting. The film got a scathing review by leading critic Olof Lagercrantz in Dagens Nyheter and when Ingmar Bergman later read about a Swedish film enjoying great success in Cannes, he claimed he couldn’t believe it when he learned that the film in question was Smiles of a Summer Night. Introduction by Elisabet Edlund from University College of Gotland.
Subtitles in English.
Price 40kr – book here
Gösta Ekman
Legendary Swedish actor Gösta Ekman, who worked as an assistant to Bergman in the late fifties.
Photo: Peter Assar Monsen
Bergman Week 2010
On Sunday, the Bergman Week ended with the traditional “rauk theatre” at the majestic rauks in Gamlehamn. The seventh Bergman Week drew an all-time high audience including visitors from Brazil, France, India, China, Italy and USA.
Jimmy Karlsson, this year's winner of Life Time Achievement Award, Photo: Peter Assar Monsen
Tickets to Bergman’s cinema!
Almost every morning we release a few tickets to the screenings in Bergman’s old private cinema. They can be bought at the office in the Fårö school. Open 10 am – 4 pm, cash only.
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.
Rock at the Bergman Week!
On Saturday July 3 two rock bands will play at Kutens Bensin, The Barbwires and Crypt Kicker 5. Tickets are purchased on site at SEK 150, the bands begin at around 10 pm.
The bar is open 8 pm-2 am every day during the Bergman Week and Creperie Tati at Kuten is open daily 11 am-10 pm.
Welcome!
Winning proposal for Bergman Center selected!
Among the proposals submitted by the invited architect bureaus, the jury has selected “Kamera” (Camera) from Tham & Videgård Arkitekter. It is an exciting design with a clear association to Bergmanesque film worlds and embedded with a poetic simplicity that suits the landscape. According to the jury, Tham & Videgård have fulfilled the criteria of creating a robust and sustainable structure for the Bergman Center, in which to evolve over time as the operation expands.
”Tham & Videgård’s proposal is aesthetically bold and has its very own character, which also makes an associative connection to the old barns on the island,” Head of Operation Jannike Åhlund says. “Interiorly, it is a practical building featuring innovative solutions.”
Press images:
View from the patio View from café
View over entrance View over the foyer Axonometric view
This January, the Fårö Bergman Center Foundation invited four Swedish architect bureaus – AIX Arkitekter, Marge Arkitekter, Tham & Videgård Arkitekter and Visby Arkitektgrupp – to present their proposals for the reconstruction of the old Fårö school. The two buildings that comprise the school, and are to be rebuilt into an attractive Bergman Center, are situated in the middle of the island by the main road, right next to Fårö church – where Ingmar Bergman is buried.
The school is surrounded by the landscape and the people that were so dear to the Ingmar Bergman. The proximity to the sea and Fårö’s distinctive nature were deemed to be vital components in the shaping of a Bergman Center.
The challenge was defined thus: to turn Fårö and its surroundings into an attractive destination and an international meeting place for Bergman fans, and others with an interest in film and culture.
The school, which was donated by the municipality of Gotland, will, among other things, house a permanent exhibition and thematic exhibitions, a cinema, a café, an audio listening room and a library, as well as the Bergman Week headquarters. The assignment also included some interior redecorating in the building called Gazeliska huset as well as suggesting how the loveliest schoolyard in Sweden could be turned into a “Cinematographic park” featuring various attractions.
Do you want to volunteer?
The Bergman Week depends on our fantastic volunteers who check tickets, take care of our guests and helps out with all sorts of things. Do you want to help us this year? We offer free entrance (to almost all venues), beds and breakfast during the week!
Please send an e-mail to david@bergmanveckan.se if you are interested!
Highlights from the programme for Bergman Week
The Fårö Bergman Center Foundation invites you to this year’s Bergman Week, featuring screenings in Bergman’s own cinema and a guest list that includes Ariane Mnouchkine, Gösta Ekman, Anna Asp and Johan Kling!
As we’ve previouslty announced, playwright Jon Fosse will be the first guest to give the annual “Bergman Lecture”. Liv Ullmann will also visit Bergman Week, to give a Masterclass and introduce a screening of Faithless as well as the Swedish première of Stig Björkman’s …but Film is my Mistress, a documentary where she is the guide and narrator. During Bergman Week, exclusive film screeenings – introduced by Lena, Ingmar och Daniel Bergman – will also be held in Bergman’s private cinema in Dämba.
During this year’s Bergman Week we also welcome French stage icon Ariane Mnouchkine, whose film Molière was a Bergman favourite. (An interview with Mnouchkine in Swedish can be found in the current edition of Teatertidningen). For almost femtio years, theatre troupe Théâtre du Soleil has has resided in an old munitions factory complex on the outskirts of Paris and their innovative productions have influenced generations of European dramatists and thespians.
In his youth, Gösta Ekman worked as Bergman’s assistant director for two years. Klas Gustafsson’s interview with him for an upcoming book has given him cause to reflect on this both rewarding and problematic relationship. We also show a gem produced for Swedish Television, the critically lauded and much appreciated A Madman’s Manifesto – which has nevertheless languished in SVT’s archives since the première in 1976. Gösta Ekman’s and Bibi Andersson’s interpretations were deemed their best work ever, as August Strindberg and Siri von Essen respectively.
Set designer Anna Asp was one of the skilled artisans that Bergman picked for his circle of co-workers.”You go ahead and build it – and we’ll shoot it!”, Bergman instructed her, secure in his conviction that she would find the right look and design, for films as different as After the Rehearsal and Fanny and Alexander. During this Bergman Week, she will give a lecture featuring stills and scenes from mainly Fanny and Alexander, the film that won her an Academy Award.
By his own count, director Johan Kling watched Smiles of a Summer Night some fifty times before writing the screenplay for his new film Trust Me. He thus follows Darling with a film that is both strongly influenced by, and a homage to, Bergman’s comedy. The story in Trust Me is, however, firmly grounded in the 21st century – the tale of a few women who manage a theatre and about the men in their midst. Acohol, cleptomania, sex and other timeless vices also play a vital role.
The guest list also includes Lena Endre, Yvonne Lombard, Pia Johansson, Leif Zern and Leif Furhammar.
Architectural visions for the Bergman Center
A Dream
Heaven and Sea
Camera
Karst
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A Dream
Heaven and Sea
Camera
Karst
This January, The Fårö Bergman Center Foundation invited four Swedish architect bureaus to present their proposals for the reconstruction of the old Fårö school. The two buildings that comprise the school, and are to be rebuilt into an attractive Bergman center, are situated in the middle of the island by the main road, right next to Fårö church – where Ingmar Bergman is buried.
The school is surrounded by the landscape and the people that were so dear to the director. The proximity to the sea and Fårö’s distinctive nature should be vital components in the shaping of a Bergman center.
The challenge was defined thus: to turn Fårö and its surroundings into an attractive destination and an international meeting place for Bergman fans, and others with an interest in film and culture.
The assignment also called for a creative and environmentally sustainable approach, not just in terms of constructing the buildings but also regarding the use of energy sources, composting, the use of rainwater and other climate friendly solutions.
The school, which was donated by the municipality of Gotland, will, among other things, house a permanent exhibition and thematic exhibitions, a cinema, a café, an audio listening room and a library, as well as the Bergman Week headquarters. To turn the loveliest schoolyard in Sweden into a “cinematographic park” featuring various attractions, was also part of the assignment.
The architect bureaus in question, AIX Arkitekter, Marge Arkitekter, Tham & Videgård Arkitekter and Visby Arkitektgrupp, have now handed in their proposals. The rules stipulate that the proposals are presented anonymously. They have instead been marked with an accompanying motto to be found next to each proposal at the exhibition.
The jury, consisting of Ann Lindegren Westerman, Albatross Team, Hans Göransson, Zuez Arkitekter, Carin Johanson, City Architect, Visby, Stefan Johansson, Head of Technical Services at Swedish Travelling Exhibitions / Riksutställningar and Jannike Åhlund, Head of Operation, Fårö Bergman Center, will now assess and form an opinion of the different proposals.
The winner will be presented on May 20 at a seminar at Filmhuset in Stockholm. Ingvar Carlsson, Chairman of the Fårö Bergman Center Foundation, will present the award to the winning proposal, which will then be described by the bureau in question. All proposals will be visible in the lobby of Filmhuset.
In connection with the publication of the winning proposal, AIS will arrange an architecture seminar with three interesting lecturers.
• Danish architect and professor on loan, Helle Juul, will talk about architecture and ethical city planning.
• Mats Björs, CEO at Byggherrarna, will talk about the role of the constructor in societal development.
• City Commissioner Kristina Alvendal will talk about urban planning monopoly as an instrument.
Moderator: Ulrika Franke, CEO, Tyréns. The seminar starts at 4 PM at Filmhuset, Borgvägen 5. After a break at 5.30 PM the winning Bergman Center proposal will be announced.
P A Lundgren
During Bergman Week 2009, P A Lundgren, with whom Bergman worked on twenty films, was the subject of an exhibition featuring sketches, film stills and models.
Fårö School as Bergman Center
Four architect bureaus display their visions for how to remake “Västra skolan” in Fårö into a Bergman Center, an attractive tourist attraction. The participating bureaus are AIX, Marge, Tham & Videgård and Visby Arkitektgrupp. The winning proposal will be selected on May 20.
Behind the scenes of A Passion
A photo exhibition featuring never before seen photos from the shoot of A Passion in Fårö. Watch the film A Passion on Wednesday, June 30. The exhibition was produced in a collaboration with the Swedish Film Institute and SF.
Before Ingmar was Bergman
An exhibition about the young Bergman. Through images and words, we get a picture of Ingmar Bergman’s youth and first steps as an artist. The exhibition is based on the material donated by Bergman to the Swedish Film Institute in the spring of 2002, including scripts, diaries, drawings and photographs. A quote from the artist as a young pup:
“Whichever way you look at it, parents ought either to be shot or to be separated from their offspring once they reach a certain age…”
The exhibition that has toured the world is now on display in the schoolhouse in Bergman’s own Fårö!
The exhibition is shown in a collaboration with the Ingmar Bergman Foundation. The texts are available in both Swedish and English.
Rauk theatre
According to tradition, the Bergman Week 2009 closing event was the rauk theatre in Gamlehamn.
Photo: Peter Assar Monsen
Barbecue at Lauters
Opening party 2009 with barbecue in the sun at Lauters.
Photo: Peter Assar Monsen
Wim Wenders
Wim Wenders from Bergmancenter on Vimeo.
Wim Wender’s talks about his relation to Ingmar Bergman.
David Stratton
David Stratton from Bergmancenter on Vimeo.
Australian film critic David Stratton talks about his first encounter with Ingmar Bergman.
Agnés Varda
Agnes Varda from Bergmancenter on Vimeo.
French film director Agnés Varda talks about her view on Ingmar Bergman.
Carl Gustaf Nykvist
During the Bergman Week 2009 Carl Gustaf Nykvist introduced his beautiful film “Light Keeps Me Company” about his father, the cinematographer Sven Nykvist.
Photo: Kuba Rose
Wim Wenders – Masterclass
During the Bergman Week 2009 Wim Wenders held a much appreciated masterclass in the beautiful little Sudersand cinema.
Photo: Peter Assar Monsen
Gunnel Lindblom
Actress and director Gunnel Lindblom was a guest at Bergman Week 2009.
Photo: Peter Assar Monsen
BW09 – Gunnel Lindblom
Conversation (in Swedish) Actress and director Gunnel Lindblom’s collaboration with Ingmar Bergman spans more than fifty years – resulting in nine films and twice as many stage productions. The conversation will touch on various Lindblom/Bergman collaborations as well as her other experiences in film and theatre throughout a long and varied career.
BW 2009 – Opening ceremony
Jazz pianist Jan Lundgren dedicated his album ”Magnum Mysterium” to Ingmar Bergman. In Fårö Church he will perform both his own music and, together with Georg Riedel, music by Kurt Weill who was a modern favourite of Bergman’s. Sarah Riedel on vocals. Actress Gunnel Lindblom will be participating and Ingvar Carlsson, Chairman of The Fårö Bergman Center Foundation will officially open this year’s Bergman Week.
Enrique Rivero
Enrique Rivero visited Bergman Week 2009 with his film Parque vía, winner of The Ingmar Bergman International Debut Award at Göteborg International Film Festival.
Photo: Peter Assar Monsen
BW 2009 – Bus Tour
Model of the church in Shame. Photo: Peter Assar Monsen
A Fårö Donkey
One of Fårö’s inhabitants
Collaborating Bergman Foundations
Bergman’s Fårö landscapes are in a state of constant change. This year’s Bergman Week will see the start of a collaboration between Fårö Bergman Center Foundation and the Bergman Estate.
Playwright Jon Fosse will be the first guest to deliver a ”Bergman Lecture” – an annually recurring lecture to be given during the Bergman Week. The works of the Norwegian dramatist have frequently been produced in Sweden, most recently The Girl in The Rain Coat at Dramaten, directed by Gunnel Lindblom. This fall, she will also direct Fosse’s A Summer’s Day.
The first guests of The Bergman Estate at Bergman’s home, Hammars, will be Norway’s Riksteatret as they rehearse for the fall première of Long Day’s Journey into Night, with Liv Ullmann in one of the lead roles. Together, we are pleased to welcome Liv Ullmann back to Fårö. During the Bergman Week she will deliver a Masterclass as well as introduce a screening of Faithless, the TV series she directed in 2000 from a Bergman script.
Liv Ullmann represents the first ”artistic reimbursement” for the Bergman Estate, whose by-laws stipulate that those who benefit from using the property for research and artistic work are expected to give something back to the local community, a clause which can create new and exciting artistic constellations, experiences and encounters.
During the Bergman Week, a number of exclusive screenings will be arranged in Bergman’s private movie theatre. Three of his children – Lena Bergman, Ingmar Bergman and Daniel Bergman – have each selected a film that they watched with their father in the cinema. They will also introduce the screenings.
In a collaboration with the Ingmar Bergman Foundation, this year’s Bergman Week will see the première of Stig Björkman’s film …but Film is My Mistress, with Liv Ullmann as narrator and guide. The film is based on behind-the-scenes footage from Bergman productions spanning 1965 to 2005.
In addition, there’s the exhibition ”Before Ingmar was Bergman”, about Bergman’s first steps as an artist, based on the material donated by Bergman to the Ingmar Bergman Foundation. The exhibition, which has toured some twenty countries, will now be on display in Fårö School over the summer.
Watch film in Bergman’s own cinema!
At 3 PM every summer afternoon, Ingmar Bergman watched a movie in his private movie theatre in Dämba, often joined by his family. In a collaboration with The Bergman Estate, Bergman Week has asked Lena Bergman, Ingmar Bergman Jr and Daniel Bergman to select one film each that they watched together with their father in the theatre and to introduce the screenings. The cinema only has 15 seats, make your reservation early!
A private cinema was an old childhood dream of Ingmar Bergman’s. The first screening in his movie barn in Fårö was also the intimate world premiere of The Magic Flute! On the first day of Bergman Week, there will be a “première screening” of The Magic Flute once more!
Film: Hour of the Wolf (1968)
An artist living with his wife on a desolate island is tormented by terrible nightmares. His artistry and guilt about the desires in his dreams become a burdon, described by Johan Borg himself as “a disease, a perversion, a five-legged calf”. Starring Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann and Ingrid Thulin.
Introduction by critic and author Leif Zern.
Including a break. Subtitles in English.
The film print is provided by the Swedish Institute.
Conversation with Ariane Mnouchkine
The legendary leader of the influential Théâtre du Soleil will visit Bergman Week along with one of the stars of the ensemble; actress Juliana Carneiro da Cunha. Ariane Mnouchkine is a stage icon who has influenced generations of European thespians with her innovative productions, often with historic themes from all over the world – India, Cambodia, Afghanistan. As a director, like Bergman, Mnouchkine has divided her time between stage and screen work and her Molière (1978) was deeply appreciated by Bergman
The conversation will be held in English.
Q&A With Liv
The Wednesday screening of Faithless will be followed by a Q&A with actress and director Liv Ullmann and actress Lena Endre.
The conversation will be held in English.
Bibi Andersson
Bibi Andersson answers questions from the audience at the Bergman Week 2007.
Photo: Paola Ciliberto
Sudersand cinema
In the small Sudersand cinema it’s still possible to buy candy and soda!
Photo: Paola Ciliberto
Branagh and Laretei
The British director and actor Kenneth Branagh meets pianist Käbi Laretei at the Bergman Week 2007.
Photo: Jannike Åhlund
Bergman in church
During the Bergman Week 2006, Ingmar Bergman himself visited the opening ceremony in Fårö church!
Photo: Stig Hammarstedt
Pagrotsky and Bergman
Former Minister of Culture Leif Pagrotsky speaks to Ingmar Bergman after the opening ceremony in Fårö church.
Photo: Stig Hammarstedt
Harriet Andersson
Harriet Andersson talking to Jannike Åhlund in a discussion including Ingmar Bergman himself from his seat in the audience.
Photo: Stig Hammarstedt
Ang Lee mingles
Ang Lee mingles outside the Sudersand cinema at the Bergman Week 2006.
Photo: Mats Bäcker
Bergman and Lee
Taiwanese director Ang Lee met his idol ingmar Bergman at the Bergman Week 2006. Afterwards Lee told the audience at the Sudersand cinema how moved he’d been by Bergman’s motherly hug.
Photo: Marie Nyreröd
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Sneak preview from the Bergman safari!
Visit the locations and discover one of Sweden’s most famed artistic talents in one of Sweden’s most distinctive landscapes. Go on a film safari to Ingmar Bergman’s Fårö! See a sneak preview of the safari below and book your tickets here: www.bergmancenter.se/en/book-bergman-experience/activities
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Record attendance at the summer’s Bergman Week!
Sunday night, the eighth edition of the Bergman Week on Fårö wrapped with a sound installation on the theme of ”The Sounds of Bergman’s landscape” amongst the ”rauks” (huge lime stones) on the island. The arrangers were content with ticket sales having increased 20 percent from the previous year.
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Fårö Document released on dvd for the first time!
Bergman’s documentary about the Baltic isle of Fårö is a time capsule of life on the tiny island at the end of the 1960s. It is a unique film featuring Fårö residents in the main roles and Ingmar Bergman as a socially committed reporter engaging in the fabric of a small rural society. Fårö Document, a field trip into Bergman territory with a political edge, is one of his lesser known films.
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Theater during the Bergman Week!
Demon Theater of Los Angeles presents Ingmar Bergman’s THE DAY ENDS EARLY- a new English Language production of Bergman’s 1947 play, translated and directed by Demon Theater co-founder and Gotland native Anna Lerbom. The play is given twice during the Bergman Week, Thursday June 30 and Saturday July 2, 7 pm at Laterna Magica near Kutens Bensin. Tickets cost 60 SEK and can be bought at the Bergman Center. Welcome!