A study of the ways the director uses his most powerful storytelling tool.
Thomas Flight‘s exploration of the ways director Ingmar Bergman, particularly with cinematographer Sven Nykvist, uses faces in his films…
… inspired this collection of stills from the director’s work:
Further Viewing
More of the interview with Ingmar Bergman On Persona 1966 excerpted in Thomas Flight’s video essay (via ORAS):
And here’s the full-length documentary from which that clip is taken, Persona: A Poem In Images (together with my own thoughts on Bergman’s Persona, for what they’re worth):