Audio Commentary: Persona (Bergman, 1966)

A look at a crucial “dream sequence” from Ingmar Bergman’s Persona, drawing on ideas in the book Mindscreen by Bruce Kawin.

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Videobibliography:

Mindscreen: Bergman, Godard, and First-Person Film by Bruce Kawin (Dalkey Archive Scholarly) ISBN: 1564784614Ingmar Bergman directs by John Simon (A Harvest special, HB 275)

Stalker still found here
http://cinemaisking.blogspot.com/2007/09/stalker-1979-andrei-tarkovsky.html

The Touch still found here
http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article559090.ab?service=print

Face to Face still found here
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23073948@N04/2256996165/

Tarkovsky passport photo and Solaris still found at nostalghia.com:
http://www.ucalgary.ca/~tstronds/nostalghia.com/ThePosters/covers/DVD/Njuta/solaris-bild1.jpg

Bibi Andersson, "Dialogue on Film," American Film (March 1977) found at bergmanorama.com: http://www.bergmanorama.com/films/persona_commentary.htm

Susan Sontag, "Persona," found at IngmarBergman.se:
http://www.ingmarbergman.se/page.asp?guid=1513AE83-F907-4EAD-A7DF-1717C891533C&LanCD=EN

Edvard Munch, Vampire, 1893
Göteborgs konstmuseum
© The Munch Museum/The Munch-Ellingsen Group/2007, ProLitteris, Zurich