The Unknown Bergman

May 29 at 10.00 am-4.15 pm. Målarsalen, Dramaten
Admission Free
Language: English

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The Ingmar Bergman Foundation hosts a one day symposium with leading Bergman scholars. Thomas Elsaesser speaks on the subject of “Ingmar Bergman in the Museum?” and Maaret Koskinen talks about The Silence in a presentation entitled “Sex and the City: Embodied Visions and the Eroticism of Language”. There will also be talks on the way ethnic minorities are presented and the as yet little explored queer perspective on Bergman’s films. The Swedish National Library presents the Ingmar Bergman Foundation Archive and their ongoing digitalization of the contents.

With: Maaret Koskinen and Thomas Elsaesser.

The events are arranged by The Ingmar Bergman Foundation with the support of the Swedish Arts Council and The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities.

Program

10 am-10.15 am Presentation – Prof. Astrid Söderbergh Widding (Stockholm University), chairwoman of the Ingmar Bergman Foundation

10.15 am-11.15 am ”Ingmar Bergman in the Museum?” – Prof. Thomas Elsaesser (Amsterdam University)

11.15 am-11.30 am Screening: Ingmar Bergman in the Museum? Thresholds, Limits, Conditions of Possibility

LUNCH

12.30 pm-1.15 pm ”Sex and the City: Embodied Visions and the Eroticism of Language” – Prof. Maaret Koskinen (Stockholm University) on her coming publication “Ingmar Bergman’s The Silence: Pictures in the typewriter, writings on the screen”

1.15 pm-2 pm ”Queering Bergman” – Dr. Dirk Gindt (Stockholm University) and Anna Håkansson (Ingmar Bergman Foundation) in dialogue

BREAK

2.30 pm-3.15 pm “Jewish Figures in the Films of Ingmar Bergman” – Prof. Em. Rochelle Wright (University of Illinois)

3.15pm-3.45 pm The digitization of the Ingmar Bergman Foundation Archives – Erik Siira (National Library of Sweden)

3.45 pm-4.15 pm Screening: Images from the Playground (Stig Björkman, 2009)