Ingmar Bergman. 1918-2007.

Ingmar Bergman passed away today. I was first introduced to the work of Bergman through his film The Seventh Seal and I have been a fan every since that viewing. If you have yet to experience the films of Ingmar Bergman, treat yourself to a viewing in honor of this great artist and perhaps his films will inspire you as they have certainly inspired me.

"No other art-medium—neither painting nor poetry—can communicate the specific quality of the dream as well as the film can. When the lights go down in the cinema and this white shining point opens up for us, our gaze stops flitting hither and thither, settles and becomes quite steady. We just sit there, letting the images flow out over us. Our will ceases to function. We lose our ability to sort things out and fix them in their proper places. We're drawn into a course of events—we're participants in a dream. And manufacturing dreams, that's a juicy business."
Ingmar Bergman