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Bergman Island

Posted By: webmaster@cyberpsych.org
Date: Saturday, 2 December 2006, at 5:07 a.m.

THE PHILOCTETES CENTER FOR THE MULTIDISCIPLINARY STUDY OF IMAGINATION
at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute
(EDWARD NERSESSIAN AND FRANCIS LEVY, CO-DIRECTORS)

invites you to a Film Screening and Discussion
Monday, December 4, 2006 - 7:00pm
at
The Philoctetes Center
247 East 82nd Street (Auditorium)

Bergman Island
Directed by Marie Nyreröd

Karen Cooper, Director of Film Forum, writes:
"Someone once claimed that the New York Film Critics Circle was founded to give Ingmar Bergman a prize every year. Indeed, Bergman's extraordinary output (more than 50 features since 1946) and his outsized influence, make him one of the leading auteurs of the 20th century. This visit with him, at home on the Swedish island of Faro, elicits his final, brilliant thinking on the masterpieces Persona and Cries and Whispers, and the role played in his life and art by fear, love, death, music, humiliation and, in his own words, 'the intensely erotic nature of film and theater.'"

A discussion with Director Marie Nyreröd and Bruce Sklarew will follow the film.

Bruce Sklarew is Chair of the Forum for the Study of Movies and Mind, Associate Editor of "Projections: A Journal for Movies and Mind" and Co-editor of "Bernardo Bertolucci: Interviews" and "The Last Emporer: Multiple Takes: A Psychoanalytic Study of Cinema". He has organized the program "Bergman's View of Women: Persona, Cries and Whispers, Silence, Autumn Sonata".

The screening is presented courtesy of Marie Nyreröd and in collaboration with Film Forum, New York's leading nonprofit cinema for independent film premieres and repertory programming. This is one of a number of events arranged as a collaboration between Film Forum and the Philoctetes Center. Bergman Island will open theatrically at Film Forum on December 6th.

The event is free and open to the public. Seating is on a first come basis.
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The mission of the Philoctetes Center is to foster the study of imagination -- funding research, organizing roundtable discussions, offering courses and programs open to the public. The Center publishes a newsletter, Dialog, and is developing a web-based clearing house on work related to imagination. In addition, the Center will publish its journal, Philoctetes, in the coming months. Visit www.philoctetes.org for more information. You may call at 646-422-0645.