A study of the ways the director uses his most powerful storytelling tool.
This tribute montage (via FilmoteCanet Cinema)…
… along with 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):
Beyond the faces of Bergman: in her video essay on director Mia Hansen-Løve‘s 2021 film Bergman Island, Broey Deschanel briefly looks at Ingmar Bergman’s influence as a director (beginning at 7:39):

